Person
Puzur-Ashur I
Assyrian king in the 21st century BCE
Puzur-Ashur I (Akkadian: 𒁍𒀫𒀸𒋩, romanized: Pu-AMAR-Aš-ŠUR; died c. 2008 BCE) was an Assyrian king in the 21st century BCE. He is generally regarded as the founder of Assyria as an independent state, c. 2025 BCE, although there are predecessors listed on the Assyrian King List dating to the early 22nd century BCE.
He is in the Assyrian King List and is referenced in the inscriptions of later kings (his son and successor Shalim-ahum and the later Ashur-rim-nisheshu and Shalmaneser III). These later kings mentioned him among the kings who had renewed the city walls of Assur begun by Kikkia.
Inscriptions link Puzur-Aššur I to his immediate successors, who, according to the Assyrian King List, are related to the following kings down to Erišum II.
Puzur-Ashur I's successors bore the title Išši’ak Aššur, vice regent of Assur, as well as ensí.