Ashur-bel-kala

Aššūr-bēl-kala, inscribed maš-šur-EN-ka-la, was the king of Assyria in 1074/3-1056 BC, the 89th to appear on the Assyrian Kinglist. He was the son of Tiglath-Pileser I, succeeded his brother Asharid-apal-Ekur who had briefly preceded him, and he ruled for 18 years He was the last king of the Middle Assyrian Empire, and his later reign was preoccupied with a revolution against his rule led by one Tukulti-Mer, which, by the end of his reign, allowed hordes of Arameans to press in on Assyria's western borders and Assyria lose control of much of the territory it had hitherto controlled or dominated in Babylonia, Anatolia, Levant and Ancient Iran. He is perhaps best known for his zoological and botanical collections.