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The son of Ashur-resh-ishi I , he ascended the throne in 1115 BC , and was one of the greatest of Assyrian conquerors. His first campaign was against the Moschi who had occupied certain Assyrian districts on the Upper Euphrates ; then he overran Kommagene and eastern Cappadocia , and drove the Hittites from the Assyrian province of Subarti north-east of Malatia . In a subsequent campaign the Assyrian forces penetrated into the mountains south of Lake Van and then turned westward, to receive the submission of Malatia . In his fifth year Tiglath-Pileser attacked Comana in Cappadocia , and placed a record of his victories engraved on copper plates in a fortress he built to secure his Cilicia n conquests. The Aramaeans of north Syria were the next to be attacked, and he thrice made his way as far as the sources of the Tigris . The command of the high road to the Mediterranean was secured by the possession of the Hittite town of Pethor at the junction of the Euphrates and Sajur ; thence he proceeded to ''Gubal'' ( Byblos ), Sidon , and finally to Arvad where he embarked onto a ship to sail on the Mediterranean, and on which he killed a ''nahiru'' or "sea-horse" (which A. Leo Oppenheim translates as a Narwhal ) in the sea. He was passionately fond of the chase and was also a great builder. The general view is that the restoration of the temple of Assur and Hadad at Assur is one of his works. The latter part of his reign seems to have been a period of retrenchment, as Aramaeans tribesmen put pressure on his realm. He died in 1076 BC and was succeeded by his son Asharid-apal-Ekur . The later kings Ashur-bel-kala and Shamshi-Adad IV were also his sons. See also: Tiglath-Pileser EXTERNAL LINKS |
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