Ruler · 685 – 631 BCE

Ashurbanipal

Lived 685 – 631 BCE. King of Assyria (Assyria), 669 BCE – 631 BCE; also in the line of Neo-Assyrian Empire, Babylon and Babylonia.

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Lived: 685 BCE – 631 BCE; 54 years
In office: 38 years; one reign
Lines: 4; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Assyria

Assyria · the 67th of 72 dated reigns · 2026 BCE – 609 BCE

63 before

Sennacherib705 BCE – 681 BCE

Aššur-nādin-šumi700 BCE – 694 BCE

Esarhaddon681 BCE – 669 BCE

Ashurbanipal669 BCE – 631 BCE

Kandalanu647 BCE – 627 BCE

Aššur-etil-ilāni631 BCE – 627 BCE

Sîn-šumu-līšir627 BCE – 626 BCE

2 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 669 BCE – 631 BCE · 38 years · came to it aged 16

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 631 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Neo-Assyrian Empire (16th of 21), Babylon (26th of 37) and Babylonia (26th of 37, read from the line of Babylon).

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