Ruler · 671 – 648 BCE

Šamaš-šuma-ukin

Lived 671 – 648 BCE. King of Babylon of Babylonia, 668 BCE – 648 BCE; also in the line of Babylon.

Wikidata's English label: Shamash-shum-ukin.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 671 BCE – 648 BCE; 23 years
In office: 20 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Babylon

Babylonia · the 27th of 37 dated reigns · 1894 BCE – 539 BCE · read from the line of Babylon

23 before

Sennacherib689 BCE – 681 BCE

Esarhaddon681 BCE – 669 BCE

Ashurbanipal669 BCE – 668 BCE

Šamaš-šuma-ukin668 BCE – 648 BCE

Ashurbanipal648 BCE – 646 BCE

Kandalanu646 BCE – 627 BCE

Sîn-šar-iškun626 BCE

7 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 668 BCE – 648 BCE · 20 years · came to it aged 3

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 648 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Babylon (27th of 37).

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