Ahsheri

Akhsheri ( Akhseri ) - the king of Manna in about 680 - 650 years BC. er

About Akhsheri is mentioned in the inscriptions of the king of Assyria Assarhaddon . While waging wars with this ruler, Ahsheri significantly expanded the territory of Manna at the expense of the territory of Assyria and, apparently, Urartu . In the fight against Assyrians, the king of Manna relied on the help of the Cimmerians and the Scythians who settled in the “region of the country of the Mannees” . Supported the Media during her speech against Assyria.

In 659 BC. er Assyrians during the reign of King Ashurbanfal took a campaign in Manna, in order to regain the territory lost in the previous war. The troops of the “chief of heads” (the highest military post in Assyria after Turtan ) Nabu-Sharr-Utsura passed through Zagros . Acheri tried to attack them and destroy them during the night, but he did not succeed: the Mannian troops were driven back. The Assyrians occupied 8 fortresses between the southern border of Manna and its capital Izirtu . Ahsheri moved his residence from the endangered Isrut to Isstatt Fortress. The Assyrians launched a 15-day siege of both Isirtu (possibly modern Sykkaz) and the neighboring fortresses of Uzbia and Urmeyat (present-day Armaite, referred to as Armed in Sargon times). However, they failed to take these fortresses and they limited themselves to devastating the surroundings and stealing people into slavery, as well as seizing livestock.

On the way back, the Assyrians attacked the frontier fortresses captured by the Mannayas at Esarhaddon. The first blow was Shurdir. This city was captured and burned, and its territory was incorporated into the Assyrian state. Then the Assyrians captured the city of Arsiyanish (Urartsk . Arsita ), located on the mountain Kharsi. The ruler of the city of Rajadishad was killed, and the city itself was burned. Also destroyed were the cities of Eristein, Biru, Sharruikbi, Gusune and some others, and their territories were returned to Assyria.

The defeat, which suffered Ahsheri, exacerbated the internal contradictions in Mann. In the text of the times of Ashshurbanapala, it is reported that an uprising of free communal farmers and possibly slaves began in Mann. The rebels killed Akhsheri, “they threw his body into the street and dragged his body over it; they beat his brothers, his family, his family with a weapon. ”