Shalmaneser is also the name of a powerful computer system in John Brunner's novel Stand on Zanzibar. Shalmaneser I, son of Adad-nirari I, succeeded his father as king of Assyria about 1310 BC. He carried on a series of campaigns against the Aramaeans in northern Mesopotamia, annexed a portion of Cilicia to the Assyrian empire, and established Assyrian colonies on the borders of Cappadocia. ... Shalmaneser II ruled Assyria (c. ... Shalmaneser III (Å ulmÄnu-aÅ¡arÄ“du, the god Shulmanu is pre-eminent) was king of Assyria (859 BC-824 BC), and son of the previous ruler, Ashurnasirpal II. His long reign was a constant series of campaigns against the eastern tribes, the Babylonians, the nations of Mesopotamia and Syria... Shalmaneser IV was king of Assyria (783 - 772 BC). ... Shalmaneser V (Akkadian: Shulmanu-asharid) was King of Assyria from 727 to 722 BC. He first appears as governor of Zimirra in Phoenicia in the reign of his father, Tiglath-Pileser III. At all events, on the death of Tiglath-Pileser, he succeeded to the throne as the 25th king... Notable people named John Brunner include: John Brunner (industrialist) John Brunner (novelist) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Cover art. ...
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I have chosen to speak upon the Assyrian king, Shalmaneser III (858â24 BCE2) because he was the first Assyrian king to concentrate a large proportion of his military campaigns on the âWestâ (eber nÄri in Akkadian, which means âacross the riverâ â the river being the Euphrates).
One morning Shalmaneser III is woken by his rab-shaqe (cup-bearer and one of the highest ranking officers in the army) bearing the monarch's morning bowl of wine and announcing that it is the fifteenth of Nisan.
Shalmaneser claims to have beaten them and to have slaughtered and plundered as the enemy fled the scene of battle.
Shalmaneser III is the representative of this line of kings at the time which we are equating with the Amarna period.
From Shalmaneser III to Ashur-Nirari V, the late-Assyrian kingdom declined steadily, while the middle-Assyrian record from Ashuruballit I to Tukulti-Nimrud I is one of rapid growth.
As what are recorded by Shalmaneser III as Assyrian/Urartian conflicts are recorded by the Hittites as having been between the Hittites and Mitanni, he identified the Mitannian province of Ashtata as the Assyria of Shalmaneser III, noting a similarity between Ash-tata and Ash-shur.
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