jan 1, 679 BC - ANCHOR Historical 1014 YR from Šamšî-Adad I

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DATING THE FALL OF BABYLON AND UR by Gerard Gertoux

Esarhaddon (N° 112) also claims to have rebuilt the temple of Aššur. In an inscription (Assur A) dated eponym Issi-Adad-anînu (679), at the beginning of his reign, he claims that 129 years elapsed between the reconstruction of Erišu I and the one of Šamšî-Adad I, and 434 years later Shalmaneser I has rebuilt again the temple, then 580 years later Esarhaddon finally rebuilt the temple. The information of Esarhaddon seems accurate. Indeed, the first term is correct, because it actually falls in the reign of Shalmaneser I (679 + 580 = 1259). The duration between the beginning of the reign of Esarhaddon and the end of the reign of Šamšî-Adad I is 1014 years (= 580 solar + 434 lunar), which corresponds to 1001 solar years, which sets the end of the reign of Šamšî-Adad I in 1680 (= 679 + 1001). The reign of this king can therefore be set from 1712 to 1680. His death in the year 17 of Hammurabi allows one to anchor it to the Babylonian chronology103. After his death the documents dated in different calendars allow some synchronisms.

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