Nabû-šuma-ukîn II, inscribed m[d]Nabû-šuma-úkîn or mŠuma-[úkîn], whose complete name is only known from the Kinglist A, was a usurper and briefly king...
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instead of cuneiform script. Šamaš-šuma-ukin (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒌋𒌋𒈬𒁺, romanized: Šamaš-šuma-ukin or Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, meaning "Shamash has established...
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instability which attended the revolt against Nabû-nādin-zēri and deposed its leader, Nabû-šuma-ukîn II. The fortuitous discovery in 1952 of a cache of...
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Nabû-šuma-ukin I, inscribed mdNābû-šuma-ú-kin, meaning “Nabû has established legitimate progeny,” was the 5th king listed in the sequence of the so-called...
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Nebuchadnezzar II (/nɛbjʊkədˈnɛzər/; Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Biblical Hebrew: נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar)...
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the Reigns from Nabû-Nasir to Šamaš-šuma-ukin known as Chronicle 1, was the king of Babylon (733–732 BC), son and successor of Nabû-Nasir (747–734 BC)...
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Osprey. p. 17. ISBN 1-85532-163-7. OCLC 26351868. J. A. Brinkman (2001). "Nabû-nādin-zēri". In Erich Ebeling; Bruno Meissner; Dietz Otto Edzard (eds.)....
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Nabonassar and his successor native Babylonian kings Nabu-nadin-zeri, Nabu-suma-ukin II and Nabu-mukin-zeri his subjects, but decided to rule Babylonia...
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Alexander the Great (redirect from Letter to Darius II)
king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his ruling years...
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Nebuchadnezzar I (redirect from Nabu-kudurri-user I)
Bible. He is misidentified in the Chronicle Concerning the Reign of Šamaš-šuma-ukin as the brother of Širikti-šuqamuna probably in place of Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur...
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and Nabonassar reduced to vassalage. His successors Nabu-nadin-zeri, Nabu-suma-ukin II and Nabu-mukin-zeri were also in servitude to Tiglath-Pileser...
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List of kings of Babylon (redirect from Isin II)
control of Babylon, for instance as late as under the native king Nabu-shuma-ukin I (r. c. 900–888 BC) and the Neo-Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 681–669...
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Eriba-Marduk, (c. 769–761 BC) Nabu-shuma-ishkun, (c. 761–748 BC) Nabu-nasir (748–734 BC) Nabu-nadin-zeri (734–732 BC) Nabu-suma-ukin II (732 BC) Dynasty X of...
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Esarhaddon (redirect from Sîn-per'u-ukīn)
his two sons and heirs Ashurbanipal as ruler of the empire and Šamaš-šuma-ukin as king of Babylonia after his death. Although Esarhaddon had been the...
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four successive generations of a single family to rule. His father, Nabû-šuma-ukin I, had preceded him and he was to be succeeded by his son, Marduk-zakir-šumi...
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Ashurbanipal (section Civil war with Shamash-shum-ukin)
Assyrians, alongside the rogue governor Nabu-bel-shumati (already notorious for his role in the war with Shamash-shum-ukin), he was deposed in another revolt...
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names in -ukīn always include both a subject and an object, as in Šamaš-šuma-ukīn "Shamash has established an heir". There is some debate over whether the...
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Nebuchadnezzar III (redirect from Nabû-kudurri-uṣur III)
Nebuchadnezzar III (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir", Old Persian: Nabukudracara), alternatively spelled Nebuchadrezzar...
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Concerning the Reign of Šamaš-šuma-ukin, a text containing disconnected passages from writing boards, names him as a brother of Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur, which is probably...
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least one more daughter of Nabonidus, though her name is not known. Nabû-šuma-ukin was the son of a man named Širikti-Marduk and belonged to the prominent...
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Neo-Assyrian Empire (section Sargon II and Sennacherib)
that he managed to secure a border agreement with the Babylonian king Nabu-shuma-ukin I (r. 900–887 BC), sealed through both kings marrying a daughter of...
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of Babylon and the eventual return of the statue of Marduk under Šamaš-šuma-ukin. Esarhaddon also crafted a narrative justifying both Sennacherib's destruction...
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Nebuchadnezzar IV (redirect from Nabu-kudurri-usur IV)
Nebuchadnezzar IV (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Old Persian: 𐎴𐎲𐎢𐎤𐎢𐎭𐎼𐎨𐎼 Nabukudracara), alternatively...
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- Adad-nirari II was king of Assyria Nabû-šuma-ukin I - Tukulti-Ninurta II was king of Assyria Nabû-apla-iddina - Aššur-nāṣir-apli II was king of Assyria...
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Neo-Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal state that in 651 BC Šamaš-šuma-ukin captured Cuthah. Šamaš-šuma-ukin was the son of the Neo-Assyrian king Esarhaddon and the...
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father Marduk-zākir-šumi I, and was the 4th and final generation of Nabû-šuma-ukin I's family to reign. He was contemporary with his father's former ally...
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Šamaš-šum-ukin's seventh year, c. 660 BC Enlil-šāpik-zēri (apparently of Ṣurru near Uruk and not actually Nippur, during the reign of Nabû-kudurri-uṣur II, 634-562...
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Sargonid dynasty (section Sargon II (722–705 BC))
Zaia, Shana (2019). "My Brother's Keeper: Assurbanipal versus Šamaš-šuma-ukīn" (PDF). Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History. 6 (1): 19–52. doi:10...
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(also known as Mukin-zeri or Nabu-mukin-zeri) who became a king of Babylon in 732. B.C.E. instead of Nabu-shum-ukin II whom he superseded. Later, Tiglath-pileser...
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recorded in one of the Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 1; "From Nabu-Nasir to Šamaš-šuma-ukin"). The deportees were displaced decentrally to various location...
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