There are up to eleven possible limmu officials named for his regnal years and a recent publication proposes the following sequence: As the seventh in the sequence is Ninurta-apal-Ekur's son and successor, Aššur-dan I, and the king was thought to occupy the limmu position in the first year of his ascendancy, it is suggested that the succession took place here.
The Synchronistic Chronicle continues “But [...] arrived unexpectedly, so he turned and went home”[10] which suggests that the succession was not smooth.
[11] He was the recipient of gifts from Meli-Šipak, who sent teams of horses and rugs, as a recently discovered text records, unearthed during excavations at Assur.
[12] He issued one of the nine palace decrees (riksu) relating to conduct of the court and the oppressive discipline of the royal harem (known as harem edicts or Middle Assyrian palace decrees), suggestive of insecurity in the succession, although he need not have worried as his descendants would continue to rule Assyria until at least the eighth century BC.
The third punished men guilty of lèse majesté and the remaining are too fragmentary to be certain of their contents, but regulate curses against, for example, the royal furniture, i.e. bed and stool.