Background
Son of Adad-nirari I, he succeeded his father as king in 1265 British Columbia.
Son of Adad-nirari I, he succeeded his father as king in 1265 British Columbia.
According to his annals, discovered at Assur, in his first year he conquered eight countries in the northwest and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assur. He incorporated the remains of the Mittani kingdom as part of one of the Assyrian provinces. He was one of the first Assyrian kings who was known to deport his defeated enemies to various lands rather than simply slaughtering them all.
He conquered the whole country from Taidu to Irridu, from Mount Kashiar to Eluhat, and from the fortresses of Sudu and Harranu to Carchemish on the Euphrates.
He built palaces at Assur and Nineveh, restored the "world-temple" at Assur (Ehursagkurkurra), and founded the city of Kalhu (the biblical Calah/Nimrud). Annual limmu officials beginning with the year of accession of Šulmanu-ašared.
The list is partly derived from Freydank and McIntyre. The exact order of the earliest limmus is conjectural but the ordering from Šerriya onwards is essentially fixed.
1265: Adad-šumu-lešir son of Sin-ašared
1264: Šulmanu-ašared (king)
1263: Mušabšiu-Šibitti
1262: Ber-šumu-iddina
1261: Abi-ili son Aššur-šumu-lešir
1260: Aššur-alik-pana
1259: Adad-Šamši son of Adad-šumu-lešir
1258: Kidin-Sin son Adad-teya
1257: Šerriya
1256: Aššur-kašid
1255: Aššur-mušabši son of Iddin-Mer
1254: Aššur-mušabši son of Anu-mušallim
1253: Qibi-Aššur son of Šamaš-aḫa-iddina
1252: Aššur-nadin-šume
1251: Mušallim-Aššur
1250: Qibi-Aššur son of Ṣilli-Marduk
1249: Ina-pi-Aššur-lišlim son of Bābu-aḫa-iddina
1248: Ber-šumu-lešir son of Ete-pi-Tašmete
1247: Aššur-dammiq son of Abi-ili
1246: Ber-bel-lite
1245: Ištar-eriš son of Šulmanu-qarrad
1244: Lullayu son of Adad-šumu-iddina
1243: Aššur-ketti-ide son of Abi-ili
1242: Ekaltayu
1241: Aššur-daʼissunu son of Ululayu
1240: Riš-Adad
1239: Nabu-bela-uṣur
1238: Usat-Marduk
1237: Ellil-ašared
1236: Ittabši-den-Aššur
1235: Ubru.
