Tiglath-Pileser I (; from the
Hebraic form of , "my trust is in the son of Esharra") was a
king of
Assyria during the
Middle Assyrian period (1114–1076 BC). According to
Georges Roux, Tiglath-Pileser was "one of the two or three great Assyrian monarchs since the days of
Shamshi-Adad I". Under him, Assyria became the leading power of the Middle East, a position the kingdom largely maintained for the next five hundred years. He expanded Assyrian control into Anatolia and Syria, and to the shores of the Mediterranean. From his surviving inscriptions, he seems to have carefully cultivated a fear of himself in his subjects and in his enemies alike.