Tukultī-apil-Ešarra Tukult.ī = “my trust” | apil = “heir of” | Ešarra = “Esharra temple” Tukultī-apil-Ešarra is an Akkadian royal name attested in written sources from ancient Assyria and neighboring regions, including Israel and Judah. Its modern spelling, Tiglath-Pileser, is adopted from the Hebrew Bible (2 Kings 15:29), where it appears also as Tilgath-Pilneser (2 Chronicles 28:20). The name is a nominal sentence, meaning that its predicate is not a verb but a noun, with the verb “to be” implied but not expressly written. In this case, “trust” (tukultu) is the subject, with a first-person possessive suffix (-ī): tukultī, “my […]
