Hale ( Akkadian: đ©đ·đ, romanized: ážȘa-le-e) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 18th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. Hale is listed within a section of the AKL as the second out of the ten âkings whose fathers are knownâ. This section has often been interpreted as the list of ancestors of the Amorite Shamshi-Adad I (fl. c. 1809 BC) [1] who had conquered the city-state of AĆĄĆĄur. [2] In keeping with this assumption, scholars have inferred that the original form of the AKL had been written (among other things) as an âattempt to justify that Ć amĆĄi-Adad I was a legitimate ruler of the city-state AĆĄĆĄur and to obscure his non-Assyrian antecedents by incorporating his ancestors into a native Assyrian genealogy.â [1] However, this interpretation has not been accepted universally; the Cambridge Ancient History rejected this interpretation and instead interpreted the section as being that of the ancestors of Sulili. [3]
The AKL also states the following: "Hale son of Apiashal," additionally; " Samani son of Hale." Apiashal is listed within the section of the AKL as the last of "altogether seventeen kings, tent dwellers". [4] [1] This section shows marked similarities to the supposed ancestors of the First Babylonian Dynasty. [1]