Shu-Ninua or
ŠÚ- or Kidin-Ninua, inscribed
mŠÚ-URU.AB x
ḪA,
[''Khorsabad Kinglist'', tablet IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54). ii 24, 26, 28 and 35,][''SDAS Kinglist'', tablet IM 60484, ii 20, 21, 22 and 27.] the 54th king to appear on the
Assyrian Kinglist, was the ruler of
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...
, 1615 to 1602 BC, and was the son of his predecessor-but-one, succeeding
Lullaya
Lullaia or Lullaya, inscribed in cuneiform phonetically m''lu-ul-la-a-a'',''Khorsabad List'', IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54), ii 22.''SDAS List'', IM 60484, ii 19. a hypocoristic name, was the 53rd king of Assyria to be added to the A ...
, a “son of nobody.”
Biography
The reading of the first element in his name is uncertain, as
Ignace Gelb
Ignace Jay Gelb (October 14, 1907, Tarnau, Austria-Hungary (now Tarnów, Poland) - December 22, 1985, Chicago, Illinois) was a Polish-American ancient historian and Assyriologist who pioneered the scientific study of writing systems.
Early life ...
and
Benno Landsberger
Benno Landsberger (21 April 1890 – 26 April 1968) was a German Assyriologist.
Early life and education
He was born on 21 April 1890 in Friedek, then part of Austrian Silesia, and from 1908 studied Oriental Studies at Leipzig. Amongst his te ...
originally proposed
BAR, giving ''Kidin-Ninua'', "
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* Alioune Mbaye Nder (born 1969), Senegalese singer
*N'Der
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the protection of
Nineveh
Nineveh (; akk, ; Biblical Hebrew: '; ar, نَيْنَوَىٰ '; syr, ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern ban ...
," while Arno Poebel read the name as beginning with
small>Šsmall>Ú- and Weidner read it as
small>Šsmall>I- on another fragmentary copy of the kinglist.
[''Kinglist'' fragment VAT 9812 (KAV 14), 6.] J. A. Brinkman observed that with the exception of this disputed interpretation, all transliterations gave
ŠÚ, reinforced by the ''Synchronistic Kinglist'',
[''Synchronistic Kinglist'', Ass. 14616c, i 8.] ˹
mŠÚ-''ni''˺''-nu-a'', which had led to the preponderance for interpreting his name as ''Shu-Ninua'' in recent years, “he of
Ishtar
Inanna, also sux, 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒀭𒈾, nin-an-na, label=none is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, divine justice, and political power. She was originally worshiped in S ...
,” if Nina is correctly identified as a Babylonian name for this deity, although this remains unproven. A recleaning of the fragmentary kinglist,
[ however, has revealed a name collated by Heeßel to be sup>m''ki-d'''in-''dNINUA.
There are no contemporary inscriptions of his reign.]Sealand Dynasty
The First Sealand dynasty, (URU.KÙKIWhere ŠEŠ-ḪA of King List A and ŠEŠ-KÙ-KI of King List B are read as URU.KÙ.KI) or the 2nd Dynasty of Babylon (although it was independent of Amorite-ruled Babylon), very speculatively c. 1732–1460 B ...
in southern Babylonia
Babylonia (; Akkadian: , ''māt Akkadī'') was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Amorite-ruled state c. ...
in the ''Synchronistic Kinglist'',[ rather than any supposed ruler from the ]Kassite
The Kassites () were people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire c. 1531 BC and until c. 1155 BC (short chronology).
They gained control of Babylonia after the Hittite sack of Babylon ...
dynasty. The ''Assyrian Kinglist'' records that he reigned for fourteen years before being succeeded by his sons, Sharma-Adad II and then Erishum III
The king of Assyria (Akkadian: ''Išši'ak Aššur'', later ''šar māt Aššur'') was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the late 21st century BC and fell in the late 7th century BC. For much of its ear ...
.
Inscriptions
References
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17th-century BC Assyrian kings