page_title: Shalmaneser I
section_title: Limmu officials by year
hierarchical_section_title: Shalmaneser I / Limmu officials by year
context_page_description: Shalmaneser I was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian Empire. Son of Adad-nirari I, he succeeded his father as king in 1265 BC.
  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. In his second year he defeated Shattuara, king of Hanilgalbat, and his Hittite and Ahlamu allies. He incorporated the remains of the Mittanni kingdom as part of one of the Assyrian provinces. Shalmaneser I also claimed to have blinded 14,400 enemy prisoners in one eye. 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, and founded the city of Kalhu. He was succeeded by his son Tukulti-Ninurta I.
context_section_description: 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 of Aššur-šumu-lešir
  1260: Aššur-alik-pana
  1259: Adad-Šamši son of Adad-šumu-lešir
  1258: Kidin-Sin son of Adad-teya
  1257: Šerriya (ordering from here onwards is essentially fixed)
  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
caption: Shalmaneser I pours out the dust of Arina before his God, illustration in Hutchinson's Story of the Nations
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