Ila-kabkabu

The Amorite name Ila-kabkabu appears twice in the Assyrian King List:Ila-kabkabu appears within the Assyrian King List among the “kings whose fathers are known”, Ila-kabkabu of Terqa is also mentioned as the father of one other king named within the Assyrian King List: Šamši-Adad I. Šamši-Adad I had not inherited the Assyrian throne from his father, but had instead been a conqueror. Ila-kabkabu had been an Amorite king not of Aššur, instead; Ila-kabkabu had been king of Terqa during the same time as that of the King Iagitlim of Mari According to the Mari Eponyms Chronicle, Ila-kabkabu had seized Shuprum, then Šamši-Adad I had, “entered his father's house,” :163 Šamši-Adad I had subsequently conquered a wide territory and had emerged as the king of Assyria, where he had founded an Amorite dynasty.