Ašarēd-apil-Ekur, inscribed^ma-šá-rid-A-É.KUR^{[i 1]} or^mSAG.KAL-DUMU.UŠ-É.KUR^{[i 2]} and variants^{[i 3]} (meaning "the heir of theEkur is foremost"), was the son and successor ofTukultī-apil-Ešarra I as king ofAssyria, reigning for just two years, 1076/5–1074 BC, during the turmoil that engulfed the end of that lengthy reign, and he was the 88th king to appear on the Assyrian King List. His reign marked the elevation of the office ofummânu, “royal scribe,” and he was the first to have this recorded next to the king’s name on theSynchronistic King List,^{[i 4]} possibly identifying the contemporary redactor of this list.^[1]

According to an early reading of theSynchronistic King List,^{[i 4]} he was a contemporary of theBabylonian kingItti-Marduk-balāṭu, c. 1140–1132 BC, where this monarch had perhaps been relocated to followMarduk-nādin-aḫḫē, c. 1099-1082 BC.^[2] This part of thecuneiform text is now lost^[3]: 448 or disproven.^[3]: 267 Current theories of chronological succession suggestMarduk-šāpik-zēri, c. 1082–1069 BC, may have been his Babylonian counterpart, with Rowton suggesting synchronizing the two-year reign of Ašarēd-apil-Ekur with this king's 5th and 6th years.^[4]

There are no royal inscriptions known from his reign and he appears only in later king lists and in an eponym list.^{[i 5][5]} He was succeeded by his brotherAššur-bel-kala, then his nephewEriba-Adad II, then his other brotherŠamši-Adad IV.

• Albert Kirk Grayson (1991).Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114–859 BC). University of Toronto Press.

• 11th-century BC Assyrian kings

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