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Ashur-etil-ilaniAshur-etil-ilani was a king of Assyria (630 - c.623 BC). He succeeded his father Ashurbanipal II. According to the brief account in Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq (3rd ed., London, 1992), "the latest and perhaps most plausible reconstruction of events which occurred in that poorly documented period" has Ashurbanipal abdicating in 630 BC in favor of Ashur-etil-ilani; Ashurbanipal later died in 627 BC, which is the year other historians offer for when Ashur-etil-ilani became king. However Kadalanu, the puppet king the Assyrians had installed in Babylon, also died in 627 BC, which weakened the Assyrian hold over Babylon. An Assyrian general in the region unsuccessfully revolted; Ashur-etil-ilani's brother Sinsharishkun then siezed Babylon and proclaimed himself king of that city, but in 626 BC a rebellion in Babylon (probably incited by the future Babylonian king Nabopolassar) forced Sinsharishkun out, and he retreated to Nineveh. The empire of Assyria was too small for the royal brothers and war broke out between them, which lasted three years until Ashur-etil-ilani was killed in battle near Nippur. Sinsharishkun was then once more a king.
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