A list of Assyrian Kings: http://www.livius.org/sources/content/anet/564-566-the-assyrian-king-list/
Babylonian King list of the Hellenistic Period: http://www.livius.org/k/kinglist/babylonian_hellenistic.html
Hittite King list: http://www.ancientneareast.net/hittite-king-list/
Regicide
Victim | Date | Civilization | Perpetrator | Motive Ancient(A) Modern(A) | Ancient Sources | Scholarship | Consequences |
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Tukulti-Ninurtu I | Assyria | Babylonian nobles | military defeats(M-Munn-Rankin (1967)) | Babylonian Chronicle | Wiseman (1974) | Babylonians put Adad -šuma-uṣur on throne. Attempted vengeance by son/brother(?) of victim | |
Sennacherib stemma | ca 670 | Assyria | His sons (brothers of Essarhaddon): | insult marduk? | Wiseman (1974) | Essarhaddon succeeds his father as king | |
Mursilis I | Hittite | Zidantas and Hantilis | insult Marduk? | Brinkman (1973) Wiseman (1974) 255 | shift in dynasty/ much chaos and more death in court | ||
Aššur-nerari (V) | ca 746 | Assyrian | Cut off main trade route with south? (M-Wiseman(1974) 253. | Tiglath Pileser III reins, conitnues family line | |||
Rimuš (son of Sargon of Akkad) | Akkadian | officials/servants | Wiseman (1974) 254 | [murder weapon cylinders] | |||
Maništusu | revolt? | Goetz fn 52 Wiseman (1974) | |||||
Šarkališarri | Wiseman (1974) n. 54 | ||||||
Xerxes | August 465 | Wiseman (1974) | |||||
Seleucus I | September 281 | Wiseman (1974) | |||||
Kadašam-Harbe | Elam | revolt | Wiseman (1974) 255 | attempted coup failed | |||
Hattusilis I | chaos after which Telipinus became king | ||||||