Ashur-uballit I

Ashur-uballit I
King of Assyria King of the Universe
Tablet from the reign of Ashur-uballit I
King of the Middle Assyrian Empire
Reign	1363–1328 BC[1] 1353-1318 BC
Predecessor	Eriba-Adad I
Successor	Enlil-nirari
Issue	Enlil-nirari Muballitat-Sherua
Father	Eriba-Adad I

Ashur-uballit I (Aššur-uballiṭ I), who reigned between c. 1363 and c. 1328 BC, was the first king of the Middle Assyrian Empire. After his father Eriba-Adad I had broken Mitanni influence over Assyria, Ashur-uballit I's defeat of the Mitanni king Shuttarna III marks Assyria's ascendancy over the Hurri-Mitanni Empire, and the beginning of its emergence as a powerful empire. Later on, due to disorder in Babylonia following the death of the Kassite king Burnaburiash II, Ashur-uballit established Kurigalzu II on the Babylonian throne, in the first of what would become a series of Assyrian interventions in Babylonian affairs.