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Tashmetu-sharrat (Akkadian: Tašmētu-šarrat or Tašmētum-šarrat, meaning "Tashmetum is queen") was a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as the primary consort of Sennacherib (r. 705–681 BC). Tashmetu-sharrat is mostly known from an inscription by Sennacherib which praises her great beauty and in which the king hopes to spend the ...
Tašmētu-šarrat [CDLI Wiki] Tašmētu-šarrat was probably Sennacherib’s second wife. According to Reade, it is likely that she overlapped with Naqī’a and is possibly the mother of Aššur-nadin-šumi. She is known from an inscription on a votive vase, which merely states her name and position as Sennacherib’s queen (MI 2 .E 2 .GAL).
Ana-Tašmētum-taklāk ( Akkadian: Ana-Tašmētum-taklāk [3] [4] or Ana-Tašmētu-taklak) [5] was a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. She is known only from a single fragmentary inscription and it has as of yet not been possible to confidently identify which king was her husband.
The Seal of Tašmetum-šarrat, Sennacherib’s Queen, and Its Impressions Karen Radner One of the many achievements of Mario Fales, and certainly one of his most visible ones, is his key role in the renaissance of Neo-Assyrian studies from the 1970s onwards, both by contributing to virtually all aspects of the political, cultural, social, legal ...
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Though nothing certain can be said of her origins, Naqiʾa having two names could point to her originating outside of Assyria proper, possibly in Babylonia or in the Levant. The name Naqīʾa is originally of Aramaic, or at the very least West Semitic, origin while Zakūtu is Akkadian. The name Zakūtu, used only sometimes, was probably adopted when she...
Reign of Sennacherib
Given the age at which she gave birth to Esarhaddon, Naqiʾa cannot have been born later than c. 728. Naqiʾa was one of the consorts of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 705–681), with the marriage taking place by the late 8th century due to the birth of their son in c. 713. This was before Sennacherib's accession to the throne, when he was still crown prince under his father Sargon II. Except for Esarhaddon, it is unknown which of Sennacherib's many children were also the children of Naqiʾa....
Reign of Esarhaddon
Naqiʾa's authority grew in the reign of her son; early on she built a palace for him in Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, and made an inscription commemorating the construction. Constructing palaces was an unusual activity for a queen to engage in, usually done only by kings. The inscription documenting the project is bombastic and clearly takes inspiration from those of the kings. In most sources from Esarhaddon's time, Naqiʾa is referred simply to as the queen mother (ummi šari, lit.'Mother of...
Later life
The last evidence of Naqiʾa is from around the time of Ashurbanipal's accession, at the end of 669, when she forced the royal family, aristocracy and all of Assyria to swear loyalty to her grandson. The royal treaty forced on the people by Naqiʾa, dubbed the Zakutu Treaty by modern historians, is a remarkable document as the only text of its kind written by someone other than the king. Why Naqiʾa, and not Ashurbanipal, was the one to implement the treaty is not known. Some aspects of the trea...
In later Greco-Roman literary tradition, two great queens of Assyria were remembered: Semiramis (based on the earlier queen Shammuramat) and Nitocris. It is possible that the figure of Nitocris, said to have lived five generations after Semiramis and to have conducted building projects in Babylon, was based on Naqiʾa. The legend of building work in...
Tašmētu-šarrat. Ešarra-hammat. Ana-tašmētum-taklāk. Libbāli-šarrat. the Neo-Assyrian Royal Harem. The Assyrian Queen and The Scorpion. Bibliography of the Assyrian Queens . by H.Hande Duymuş Florioti (University of Pamukkale,Faculty of Science&A ...
The seal in question was acquired in 2002 by the British Museum and can be identified with reasonable certainty as that of the Assyrian queen Tasmetum-sarrat, the “beloved wife” of Sennacherib (704‒681 BC). Three impressions of this very seal are also housed in the BM collections.
