ILA-KABKABU
Term
: c. 1767–1749 BC short chronology
Succeeded
by : Shamshi-Adad
I
The
Amorite name Ila-kabkabu appears twice in the Assyrian King List
:
Ila-kabkabu
(ILA-KAB-ka-bi) appears within the Assyrian King List among the
“kings whose fathers are known” (alongside both: Ila-kabkabu's
father and predecessor, Yazkur-el; Ila-kabkabu's son and successor,
Aminu).
Ila-kabkabu of Terqa is also mentioned as the father of one other
king named within the Assyrian King List: Šamši-Adad I.
Šamši-Adad I had not inherited the Assyrian throne from
his father, but had instead been a conqueror. Ila-kabkabu had been
an Amorite king not of Aššur (within Assyria), instead;
Ila-kabkabu had been king of Terqa (within Syria) during the same
time as that of the King Iagitlim of Mari (also within Syria.) According
to the Mari Eponyms Chronicle, Ila-kabkabu had seized Shuprum (possibly
c. 1790 BC), then Šamši-Adad I had, “entered his
father's house,” (e.g.. Šamši-Adad I had succeeded
Ila-kabkabu as the king of Terqa, within the following year.) Šamši-Adad
I had subsequently conquered a wide territory and had emerged as
the king of Assyria, where he had founded an Amorite dynasty.
Arising from the two appearances of the name "Ila-kabkabu"
within two different places of the Assyrian King List, the “kings
whose fathers are known” section has often, although not universally
been considered a list of Šamši-Adad I's ancestors. In
keeping with this assumption, scholars have inferred that the original
form of the Assyrian King List had been written among other things
as an, “attempt to justify that Šamši-Adad I was
a legitimate ruler of the city-state Aššur and to obscure
his non-Assyrian antecedents by incorporating his ancestors into
a native Assyrian genealogy.” According to this interpretation,
both instances of the name would refer to the same man, Šamši-Adad
I's father, whose line would have been interpolated into the list.
Source
:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ila-kabkabu