Assyrian Kinglist

Shamshi-Adad I, the first Assyrian king known via his own inscriptions, recorded 38 prior kings and organized them as shown below.

#’s	Group & Order	King	→	Son Of	Description
1-17	Kings Living in Tents Chronological	Ushipya Apiashal		Ushipya	The first twelve ancestors are the same as Hammurabi of Babylon. Hammurabi had Amorite ancestry, so these twelve ancestors shared between Assyrian and Babylonian must have been nomadic chieftains from before Amorites emerged from the western desert, split apart and settled Mesopotamia in ~2,000 BC. Ilu-Kabkabi, Shamshi-Adad’s father, is linked to this line through Apiashal son of Ushpiya. Shamshi-Adad included these undifferentiated ancestors, interjecting his own father a little later, to demonstrate that he was from an old line of ancestral chieftains and thus had legitimately usurped the Assyrian throne.
17-26	Kings Who Were Ancestors Genealogical	Amnu Ilu-kabkabi Yazkur-ilu Apiashal		Ilu-kabkabi Yazkur-ilu Yakmeni Ushipya	Most recent kings are named first, then backward through ancestory.
27-32	Kings With Unknown Eponyms	Suli Kikkiya Akiya Puzur-Ashur I Shalim-ahum Ilu-shuma		Amnu
33-38	Kings With Names on Bricks	Erishum I Ikunum Sargon I Puzur-Ashur II Naram-Suen Erishum II		Illu-shuma Illu-shuma Ikunum Sargon Puzur-Ashur Naram-Suen	This way people know who built the buildings. Later scribes must have gone around Nineveh and found some sort of old bricks with inscriptions.
39	Shamshi-Adad			Ilu-kabkadi	Continue to the timeline of Assyria.