Aur-narari I, inscribed ma-ur-ERIM.GABA, "Aur is my help," was an Old Assyrian king who ruled for 26 years during the mid-second millennium, speculatively ca. 15341509 (Landsberger) or 15231499 BC (Gasche). He was the 60th king to be listed on the Assyrian Kinglist and expanded the titles adopted by Assyria rulers to include muddi, "restorer of," and bani, "builder of," to the traditional epithets ensi, "governor," and iiak, "vice-regent," of Aur.[1]
Biography
He was the son of Ime-Dagan II, succeeded his brother ami-Adad III to the throne and ruled for twenty six years, an identification that all three Assyrian Kinglists (Khorsabad,[i 1] SDAS[i 2] and Nassouhi[i 3]) agree on.[2] The Synchronistic Kinglist[i 4] gives his Babylonian contemporary as Katil[...], possibly identified as Katiliau III, the son and (eventual) successor of Burna-Buriyå I, the Kassite kings of Babylon during the period when the dynasty was beginning to exert control over southern Mesopotamia.
Evidence of his construction activities survives, with four short inscriptions commemorating work building the temple of Bel-ibriia on bricks recovered from an old ravine, restoring the Abaru forecourt and rebuilding the Sîn-ama (Moon-god/Sun-god) temple,[3] called the é.?úl.?úl.dir.dir.ra, House of Surpassing Joys, which would be later restored by Tukulti-Ninurta I and Aur-na?ir-apli II.[4] He ruled in what was probably a brief period of independence between the collapse of the First Babylonian Dynasty and the expansion of the Mitanni empire. He was succeeded by his son Puzur-Aur III.
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