ON SOME FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY ISSUES OF MIDDLE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE

The article focused on the issues of the conquest of Assyria by the Kingdom of Mittani, and expressed an opinion that Mittanian supremacy over the Aššur was not long-lasting. Based on the construction work of Aššūr-bēl-nīšēšu (1407-1399 B.C.) and the fact of the treaty concluded between Karaindaš I, king of Babylon, it is evident that the king of Aššur was acting as an independent ruler. We assume that hardly being under the domination of the Kingdom of Mittani, he could have established diplo- matic relations with a third country and to the resolve border issues. Thus, proceeding from the above, it can be clearly stated that the chronological problems of Mittanian domination over Aššur need to be revised. And the Middle Assyrian Kingdom should be dated to the reign of Aššūr-bēl-nīšēšu. Among the Middle-Assyrian kings' well-known inscriptions the first record of deportation in the area of Assyria we meet during the reign of Arik-dēn-ili (1307-1296 B.C.), and then in the reign of his son Adad-nīrāri I (1295-1264 B.C.). Kings of the Middle Assyria, mostly destroyed and plundered of conquered territories. Only in the inscription of Aššūr-bēl- kala (1074-1057 B.C.) for the first time we meet one of the earliest manifestations of the king's use of deportation and resettlement. It should also be noted that before the reign of Tukultī-apil-Ešarra (Tiglath-pileser) III (745-727 B.C.) this policy was not included in the agenda of the state policy, so the taking and transfering prisoners to the land of Assyria or any other country cannot be regarded as a mass deportation.