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Among the Neo-Assyrian royal correspondence are a number of letters addressed to the queen mother, Naqī’a. Five or six letters were addressed to her from Assyrian officials; four letters were written to her from Babylonian officials; one letter was written to her from the king (Melville 1999: 6). In the letter from king to his mother, it ...
- Wife of Sennacherib
- Mother of The King
- The Palace Inscription
- Treaty of Zakutu
- Conclusion
Sennacherib was the son and successor of Sargon II (r. 722-705 BCE) whose military campaigns, cultural incentives, and building projects elevated the Neo-Assyrian Empire to its greatest height. While Sargon II was away on campaigns, Sennacherib was entrusted with governing the empireand was essentially king in everything but name. He took a wife, T...
Although little is known of Zakutu’s youth or origin, her name Naqi’a is Aramaic/Semitic and Zakutu is Akkadian, suggesting (as scholar Wolfram von Soden maintains) she came from the region of modern-day Syria. From a land purchase contract, it is known that she had a sister, Abirami, but no other personal details of Zakutu's life have come to ligh...
It is clear, however, that she commissioned her son’s palace at Nineveh and made that known through the inscription she had placed in its foundation. Melville elaborates: Zakutu is careful to limit herself to inviting the gods of the city to the grand opening of the palace, not all the gods of Assyria, as would be in keeping with royal inscriptions...
Esarhaddon wanted to spare his sons the difficulty he had experienced when he came to the throne and so, after his eldest son and heir, Sin-iddina-apla, died in 672 BCE, he had his vassal states swear their allegiance to his second son Ashurbanipal. He left to campaign in Egypt after instructing that his youngest son, Shamash-shun-ukin, be proclaim...
Once Ashurbanipal was installed as king, he made provision to honor his younger brother by decreeing a coronation festival for him as King of Babylon. He continued his father’s policies of restoring Babylon to its former glory (prior to the sack of Sennacherib) and secured the southern territories before embarking on campaign to Egypt. Zakutu still...
- Joshua J. Mark
Naqīʾa. Akkadian. Zakūtu. Naqiʾa or Naqia [3] [4] [5] ( Akkadian: Naqīʾa, [6] also known as Zakūtu ( ), [6] [7] was a wife of the Assyrian king Sennacherib ( r. 705–681 BC) and the mother of his son and successor Esarhaddon ( r. 681–669). Naqiʾa is the best documented woman in the history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire [8] and she ...
26. Okt. 2012 · Abstract Naqi'a (Akkadian Zakutu) was an important figure at the Assyrian court during the reign of her son, Esarhaddon (r. 680–669 BCE).
- Sarah C. Melville
- 2019
25. Aug. 2022 · Esharhaddon, the father of Ashurbanipal, is portrayed on a relief with the Queen Mother, Naqi'a-Zakutu. Bridgeman/ACI Crown prince Ashurbanipal was trained in military affairs, diplomacy, and ...
Sarah Melville. There are more sources for Naqia/Zakutu, the mother of Esarhaddon and grandmother of Assurbanipal, than for all other Sargonid royal women combined. This work constitutes a reevaluation of these sources with an eye to determining which of the modern myths about this woman are supported by the sources and which are mere speculation.
Zakutu (l. c. 728 - c. 668 BCE) was the Akkadian name of Naqi’a, a secondary wife of Sennacherib of Assyria (r. 705-681 BCE). Though she was not Sennacherib's queen, she bore him a son, Esarhaddon, who would succeed him. She may have ruled briefly as queen after Esarhaddon’s death and was grandmother to his successor, Ashurbanipal. More ...
