Aššur-nārāri I, inscribed^maš-šur-ERIM.GABA, "Aššur is my help," was an OldAssyrian king who ruled for 26 years during the mid-second millennium BC,c. 1547 to 1522 BC. He was the 60th king to be listed on theAssyrian Kinglist and expanded the titles adopted by Assyrian rulers to includemuddiš, "restorer of," andbāni, "builder of," to the traditional epithetsensi, "governor," andiššiak, "vice-regent," of Aššur.[2]

He was the son ofIšme-Dagān II, and succeeded his brotherŠamši-Adad III to the throne, ruling for twenty six years, an identification that all threeAssyrian Kinglists (Khorsabad,^{[i 1]}SDAS^{[i 2]} andNassouhi^{[i 3]}) agree on.^[3] TheSynchronistic Kinglist^{[i 4]} gives his Babylonian contemporary as Kaštil[...], possibly identified asKaštiliašu III, the son and (eventual) successor ofBurna-Buriyåš I, theKassite kings ofBabylon during the period when the dynasty was beginning to exert control over southernMesopotamia.

Evidence of his construction activities survives, with four short inscriptions commemorating work building the temple of Bel-ibrīia on bricks recovered from an oldravine, restoring the Abaru forecourt and rebuilding theSîn-Šamaš (Moon-god/Sun-god) temple,^[4] called the é.ḫúl.ḫúl.dir.dir.ra, “House of Surpassing Joys,” which would be later restored byTukulti-Ninurta I andAššur-nāṣir-apli II.^[5] He ruled in a peaceful and uneventful period of Assyrian history following the overthrow of theBabylonians andAmorites byPuzur-Sin c. 1732 BC and the rise of theMitanni in the 1450s BC. He was succeeded by his sonPuzur-Aššur III.

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