TIGLATH-PILESER III

flourished 8th century BC king of Assyria (745727 BC) who inaugurated the last and greatest phase of Assyrian expansion. He subjected Syria and Palestine to his rule, and later (729 or 728) he merged the kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia. Additional reading J.D. Hawkins, The Neo-Hittite States in Syria and Anatolia, in John Boardman et al. (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed., vol. 3, part 1, chapter 9 (1982), pp. 372441, includes a discussion of Tiglath-pileser. R.D. Barnett and M. Falkner, The Sculptures of . . . Tiglath-pileser III . . . (1962), provides illustrations of the king and his campaigns.