Širikti-šuqamuna, inscribed phonetically in
cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-sha ...
m''ši-rik-ti-''
d''šu-qa-mu-nu'' and meaning “gift of (the god) Šuqamuna”, 981 BC, succeeded his fellow “son of Bazi,”
Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I, as 3rd king of the Bῑt-Bazi or 6th Dynasty of
Babylon
''Bābili(m)''
* sux, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠
* arc, 𐡁𐡁𐡋 ''Bāḇel''
* syc, ܒܒܠ ''Bāḇel''
* grc-gre, Βαβυλών ''Babylṓn''
* he, בָּבֶל ''Bāvel''
* peo, 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢 ''Bābiru''
* elx, 𒀸𒁀𒉿𒇷 ''Babi ...
and exercised the kingship for just 3 months, an insufficient time to merit an official regnal year.
Biography
He was the last monarch of the Bīt-Bazi dynasty, which had reigned for 20 years 3 months according to the ''King List A'',
[''King List A'', BM 33332, iii.] and a contemporary of the Assyrian king
Aššur-rabi II,
[''Synchronistic King List A.117'', Assur 14646c.] 1012–971 BC. He was named for the
Kassite god of war and of the chase, Šuqamuna, one of the two (with Šumalia) associated with the investiture of kings.
The ''Chronicle Concerning the Reign of
Šamaš-šuma-ukin'',
[''Šamaš-šuma-ukin Chronicle'' (ABC 15), BM 96273, lines 20 to 21.] a text containing disconnected passages from writing boards, names him as a brother of Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur, which is probably an error for the Ninurta-kudurrī-uṣur whom he succeeded.
A person with this name (which appears no where else) appears as the ''šakin bāb ekalli'', palace gate officer, and beneficiary of a land grant on a
kudurru
A kudurru was a type of stone document used as a boundary stone and as a record of land grants to vassals by the Kassites and later dynasties in ancient Babylonia between the 16th and 7th centuries BC. The original kudurru would typically be stor ...
[Land granto to Širikti-Šuqamuna kudurru IM 74651, in the ]National Museum of Iraq
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. but this was during the reign of
Marduk-šāpik-zēri, some eighty years and ten reigns previously.
The ''
Dynastic Chronicle
The Dynastic Chronicle, ''"Chronicle 18"'' in Grayson's ''Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles'' or the ''"Babylonian Royal Chronicle"'' in Glassner’s ''Mesopotamian Chronicles'', is a fragmentary ancient Mesopotamian text extant in at least four k ...
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[The ''Dynastic Chronicle'' (ABC 18) v 11.] records that he was interred in a palace.
Inscriptions
References
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10th-century BC Babylonian kings
10th-century BC rulers