Erība-Adad II, inscribed^mSU-^dIM, “Adad has replaced,” was the king ofAssyria 1056/55–1054 BC, the 94th to appear on theAssyrian Kinglist.^{[i 1][i 2]} He was the son ofAššur-bēl-kala whom he briefly succeeded and was deposed by his uncleŠamši-Adad IV.^[2]

TheKhorsabad kinglist^{[i 3]} mistakenly gives him as a son of Ilu-kabkabi, i.e. the father of the 18th century BC kingShamshi-Adad I. Despite his short two-year reign, there are fragmentary inscriptions^{[i 4][i 5]} where he claims his rule extended to theAramaeans and lists conquests far and wide in intense military campaigns, imitating those ofTiglath-Pileser I, for which he styled himself “king of the four quarters.”^[3] He would have appeared on a destroyed section of theeponym list designated as Cc.^{[i 6]}

The Synchronistic Kinglist gives his name, but theBabylonian counterpart is illegible, possibly having beenSimbar-shipak based on the sequence of kings before and after. This chronicle seems quite fanciful in its chronology during the Assyrian dark-age. In any case, the kingAdad-apla-iddina would have been his contemporary, sheltering his uncle, Šamši-Adad IV in political exile while he regrouped and planned hisputsch. Although Aššur-bēl-kala had married Adad-apla-iddina’s daughter, it seems unlikely that Adad-apla-iddina would have then participated in an effort to depose his own grandson, so it seems likely that Erība-Adad was the issue of another queen and the Babylonian king’s change of attitude due to earlier political events in Assyria.^[4]

AnAssur monumental stele (number 27) from the Stelenreihe, "row of stelae", has been attributed to him and is inscribed laconically: "Erība-adad, king of the universe".^[5] He was one of the restorers of theé.ḫur.sağ.kur.kur.ra, "House, Mountain of the Lands", or thecella of the temple of the godAššur,^[6] as commemorated in one of his inscriptions.^{[i 7]} A fragmentary literary text is dated to his reign.^{[i 8]}

From Babylon, his rule came to an end when his exiled uncle Šamši-Adad “went upKardun]iaš He drove Erība-Adad, [son of Aššur-bēl-ka]la, from the throne.”^[7]

• 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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