Aà ¡à ¡à «r-reà ¡-ià ¡i II, inscribed <sup>m</sup>aà ¡-à ¡ur-<small>SAG</small>-i-à ¡i, meaning "(the god) Aà ¡à ¡ur has lifted my head," was the king of Assyria, 971âÂÂ967 BC, the 96th to be listed on the Assyrian Kinglist. His short five-year reign is rather poorly attested and somewhat overshadowed by the lengthy reigns of his predecessor, Aà ¡à ¡ur-rabi II, and successor, Tukultë-apil-Eà ¡arra II.
He succeeded his father, Aà ¡à ¡ur-rabi II, who had a long 41-year reign. He was probably fairly elderly when the accession took place. He is given in the Synchronistic Kinglist as the counterpart of the Babylonian king Mâr-bîti-apla-uá¹£ur (983-978 BC), the sole member of the 7th or Elamite dynasty of Babylon, although conventional chronology would suggest the subsequent king, Nabû-mukin-apli (978âÂÂ943 BC), might be a more likely candidate. The part of the eponym list Cc which would have displayed his limmu officials, was at the top of column V, and is obliterated.
Apart from the references to him in later copies of the Assyrian Kinglists and in the filiation of his grandson, Aà ¡à ¡ur-dÃÂn II, the only contemporary inscriptions referring to him are from his stele at the Stelenreihe, "row of stelae," in Aà ¡à ¡ur and in the cylinder inscription of BÃÂl-ereà ¡. His stele (number 12) is simply inscribed "á¹£alam of Aà ¡à ¡ur-reà ¡-ià ¡i, king of Assyria (<small>MAN.KUR</small> aà ¡-à ¡ur), son of [A]à ¡à ¡ur-[r]abi, king of Assyria," where the term á¹£alam is taken to mean "statue." BÃÂl-erià ¡, the à ¡angû-priest of the temple of the god Samnuha, in the city of à  adikanni, in the ḪÃÂrbà «r river valley region, commemorated his construction of a quay-wall for a canal during Aà ¡à ¡ur-rabi IIâÂÂs reign, and the reconstruction of the temple during Aà ¡à ¡à «r-reà ¡-ià ¡iâÂÂs, in his clay cylinder inscription recovered from Aà ¡à ¡ur.