Aššur-nērārī IV, inscribed^maš-šur-ERIM.GABA, "(the god)Aššur is my help,"^[1] was the king ofAssyria, the 94th to appear on theAssyrian Kinglist,^{[i 1][i 2]} ruling 1019/18–1013 BC. His short six-year reign was marked by confusion and a dearth of contemporary inscriptions.

He succeeded his father,Salmānu-ašarēd II, whose twelve-year reign seems to have ended in confusion, as the lastlimmu official on hiseponym list^{[i 3]} is missing and recorded asša ar[ki si...], the eponym ‘which is after’ (the previous name). Aššur-nērārī took the eponymy during his first year but the following year is markedšaEGIR^maš-šur-, “(year) after Aššur-…” and thereafter all the remaining years were recorded with a sequential number and aWinkelhaken to designate “ditto.” It is probable that events were so turbulent during this period that an eponym was not appointed.^[2]

TheBabylonian king,Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I (987–985 BC) is given as his counterpart on theSynchronistic Kinglist^{[i 4]} but the conventional chronology would suggest it was the earlier monarch,Simbar-Šipak (1025–1008 BC). The later king,Aššur-nāṣir-apli II mentions "Sibir, king ofKarduniaš" in the context of the capture of the city of Atlila, in his annals, and historians have tentatively identified this individual with Simbar-Šipak, suggesting he engaged in warfare against Assyria around this time.^[3]

His successor was his uncle,Aššur-rabi II, a younger son of the earlier kingAššur-nāṣir-apli I. The circumstances of the succession are unknown and the Assyrian Kinglist gives no indication that he was overthrown, the usual cause of an uncle to succeed his nephew in the Assyrian monarchy.

• 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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