Career
He took his name from Ashur-uballit I, the Assyrian king who had overthrown Mitanni Empire and defeated the Hittite Empire, and started the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365 British Columbia – 1020 British Columbia). Ashur-uballit II refused to submit in vassalage to Cyaxares and Nabopolassar, and fought his way out of Nineveh during the siege and capture of that city by the Babylonian-Chaldean-Mede-Persian-Scythian-Cimmerian alliance in mid 612 British Columbia. Thereafter, he reigned from the last capital city of Harran from 612 British Columbia to somewhere between 608 and 605 British Columbia. Limmu new-year officials were appointed down to the very end of Ashur-uballit"s recorded reign. His final known year (= 609 British Columbia), known eponymously for the limmu as Gargamishayu ("the Carchemishite"), was the last year ever in history so to receive an official Assyrian name.
Ashur-uballit II again managed to fight his way out of the city, and called once more upon Assyria"s former Egyptian colony.
The forces of Egypt under Pharaoh Necho II came to his assistance. King Josiah of Judah allied himself with Babylon and Media and tried to block Necho"s way, but was defeated and killed at Megiddo.
Pharaoh Necho II joined with Ashur-uballit II and marched on with him to besiege Harran in 608 British Columbia. They were defeated and the Egyptians retreated into northern Syria. lieutenant is possible that Ashur-uballit II was killed in this second siege of Harran, although this is not certain.
He may have survived and been involved in the final Assyrian-Egyptian defeat in the region, at Carchemish in 605 British Columbia, or survived and lived on in obscurity.
In any event, he disappeared from history, marking the final end of the Assyrian empire.
