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Semiramis, Queen, consort of Shamshi-Adad V, King of Assyria, active 9th ...

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Personal name headingSemiramis, Queen, consort of Shamshi-Adad V, King of Assyria, active 9th century B.C.
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Variant(s)Sammuramat, Queen, consort of Shamshi-Adad V, King of Assyria, active 9th century B.C.
Semiramida, Queen, consort of Shamshi-Adad V, King of Assyria, active 9th century B.C.
Semiramide, Queen, consort of Shamshi-Adad V, King of Assyria, active 9th century B.C.
Semiramis, Queen, consort of Shamshi-Adad V, King of Assyria, 9th cent. B.C.
Simīrāmīs, Queen, consort of Shamshi-Adad V, King of Assyria, active 9th century B.C.
Beginning date-08
Found inPettinato, G. Semiramide, 1985: t.p. (Semiramide) p. 36, etc. (author identifies the legendary Semiramide with Sammuramat, the wife of Samsi-Adad V, 824-812 B.C., and mother of Adad-narari III (811-781 B.C.)
Oxford classical dict. (Under the legend of Semiramis, there is almost certainly the historical Sammuramat, wife of Assyrian King Shamshi-Adad V, and herself Regent from 810-805 B.C. during the minority of her son Adad-Nirari III)
Encicl. Brit. (Semiramis)
Encycl. Americana (Semiramis)
Aḥmad, S.S. Simīrāmīs, 1989: t.p. (Simīrāmīs)
Femei celebre, 1998: p. 7 (Semiramida)