Hale

This section has often been interpreted as the list of ancestors of the Amorite Shamshi-Adad I who had conquered the city-state of Aššur. In keeping with this assumption, scholars have inferred that the original form of the AKL had been written 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.” 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.