Middle Assyrian king (r. 1192-1180 BCE per Nassouhi King List, or 1182-1180 BCE per shorter chronology). Founder of a new dynastic branch after the assassination of Tukulti-Ninurta I had thrown the senior line into chaos. Mortal class — Assyrian kings explicitly were not considered divine themselves but rather "vicars of Ashur" (Iššiʾak Aššur) and the god's chief representative on earth. Father of Ashur-dan I, whose 46-year reign (1178-1133 BCE) preserved Assyrian power through the Bronze Age Collapse. Already dead by 1172 BCE — his son Ashur-dan I is the Middle Assyrian king actually alive at that moment.