Tiglath-Pileser III
![Tiglath-Pileser III: stela from the walls of his palace (British Museum, London).](/Images/godic/202502/16/Tilglath_pileser_iii4348.jpg")
![Tiglath-pileser III, an alabaster bas-relief from the king's central palace at Nimrud, Mesopotamia.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Tiglath-pileser_III,_an_alabaster_bas-relief_from_the_king's_central_palace_at_Nimrud,_Mesopotamia.4348.JPG")
![Tiglath-pileser III stands over an enemy, bas-relief from the Central Palace at Nimrud.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Tiglath-pileser_III_stands_over_an_enemy,_bas-relief_from_the_Central_Palace_at_Nimrud.4349.JPG")
![Tiglath-Pileser III besieging a town](/Images/godic/202502/16/Tiglath-Pileser_II_-_1889_drawing4349.jpg")
Tiglath-Pileser III (from the Hebraic form of Akkadian: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, "my trust is in the son of Esharra") was a prominent king of Assyria in the eighth century BCE (ruled 745–727 BCE) who introduced advanced civil, military, and political systems into the Neo-Assyrian Empire.