Erība-Adad II, inscribed mSU-dIM, “Adad has replaced,” was the king of Assyria 1056/55-1054 British Columbia, the 94th to appear on the Assyrian Kinglist.
Background
He was the son of Aššur-bēl-kala whom he briefly succeeded and was deposed by his uncle Šamši-Adad IV. The Khorsabad kinglist mistakenly gives him as a son of Ilu-kabkabi, id est (that is) the father of the 18th century British Columbia king Šamši-Adad I. Despite his short two-year reign, there are fragmentary inscriptions where he claims his rule extended to the Aramaeans and lists conquests far and wide in intense military campaigns, imitating those of Tukultī-apil-Ešarra I, for which he styled himself “king of the four quarters.” He would have appeared on a destroyed section of the eponym list designated as Cc.
Career
He was one of the restorers of the é.ḫur.sağ.kur.kur.ra, “House, Mountain of the Lands,” or the cella of the temple of the god Aššur, as commemorated in one of his inscriptions. A fragmentary literary text is dated to his reign. The Synchronistic Kinglist gives his name, but the Babylonian counterpart is illegible, possibly having been Simbar-Šipak based on the sequence of kings before and after.
This chronicle seems quite fanciful in its chronology during the Assyrian dark-age.
His rule came to an end when Šamši-Adad “went up iaš. He drove Erība-Adad, la, from the throne.”
An Aššur monumental stele (number 27) from the Stelenreihe, "row of stelae," has been attributed to him and is inscribed laconically: "Erība-adad, king of the universe".
SDAS Kinglist, iii 31. Nassouhi Kinglist, iv 12.
Khorsabad Kinglist, iii 45,
Clay cone fragment from Nineveh Bachelor of Medicine 123467, 6 lines.
Participant of a clay tablet Room-II.261 (RIMA 2 A0901), 7. Eponym List Value-Added Tax 11254, (KAV 21). K.2693 Participant of a clay tablet, with holes, 13 + 5 lines (RIMA 2 A0901).
Literary text, Bachelor of Medicine 98941.
