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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Apiashal
| reign = Early Period of Assyria
| predecessor = Ushpia
| successor = Hale
| suc-type = Successor
| spouse =
| issue = Hale
| royal house =
| dynasty =
| father = [[Ushpia]]
}}
'''Apiashal''' ({{langx|akk|𒀀𒉿𒀀𒊩|A-pi-a-ŠAL}}) was according to the ''[[Assyrian King List]]'' (AKL) the 17th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's [[Early Period (Assyria)|early period]].<ref name="Glassner">{{cite book|last=Glassner|first=Jean-Jacques|authorlink=Jean-Jacques Glassner|title=Mesopotamian Chronicles|publisher=Society of Biblical Literature|year=2004|pages=137|isbn=1589830903|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1i5b6STWnroC}}</ref><ref name="Bruno">{{cite book|last=Meissner|first=Bruno|authorlink=Bruno Meissner|title=Reallexikon der Assyriologie|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|location=Berlin|year=1990|volume=6|pages=103|isbn=3110100517|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OIeiZaIo91IC}}</ref>
He has been listed within the section of the ''AKL'' as the last of whom, "''altogether seventeen kings, tent dwellers''."<ref name="Glassner" /><ref name="Bruno" /> This section shows marked similarities to the ancestors of the ''[[First Babylonian dynasty]]''.<ref name="Bruno" /> The ''AKL'' also states that ''Apiashal'' had been preceded by his father ''[[Ushpia]]''. Additionally, the ''AKL'' states that ''Apiashal'' had been succeeded by his son ''[[Hale (Assyrian king)|Hale]]''.
''Apiashal'' is also listed within a section of the ''AKL'' as the first out of the ten, "''kings whose fathers are known''.” This section (which in contrast to the rest of the list) had been written in reverse order—beginning with [[Aminu (Assyrian king)|Aminu]] and ending with Apiashal, "''altogether ten kings who are ancestors''"<ref name="Glassner" /><ref name="Bruno" />—has often been interpreted as the list of ancestors of the [[Amorite]] ''[[Shamshi-Adad I|Šamši-Adad I]]''<ref name="Bruno" /> (''[[Floruit|fl.]]'' ''c.'' 1808 BCE – ''c.'' 1776 BCE) who had conquered the city-state of ''[[Aššur]]''.<ref name="Mieroop">{{cite book|last1=Van De Mieroop|first1=Marc|authorlink= Marc Van de Mieroop|title=A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC|date=2004|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|isbn=9781405149112|page=107|edition=2nd}}</ref> In keeping with this assumption, scholars have inferred that the original form of the Assyrian King List had been written (among other things) as an, “''attempt to justify that Šamši-Adad I was a legitimate ruler of the city-state Aššur and to obscure his non-Assyrian antecedents by incorporating his ancestors into a native Assyrian genealogy''.”<ref name="Bruno" /> However, this interpretation has not been accepted universally; the ''[[Cambridge Ancient History]]'' rejected this interpretation and instead interpreted the section as being that of the ancestors of ''[[Sulili]]''.<ref name="Hildegard">Hildegard Levy, "Assyria c. 2600-1816 B.C.", ''Cambridge Ancient History. Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East'', 729-770, p. 745-746.)</ref>
==See also==
* [[Timeline of the Assyrian Empire]]
* [[Early Period of Assyria]]
* [[List of Assyrian kings]]
* [[Assyrian people]]
* [[Assyria]]
==References==
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[[Category:23rd-century BC Assyrian kings]]
[[Category:22nd-century BC Assyrian kings]]
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