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Elam: rulers and royal family

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Kuk-Sanit

Kuk-Sanit, also written Kuku-sanit, was an early member of the Sukkalmah dynasty of Elam, known as the beloved son of the sukkalmah Temti-Agun around the 20th century BC.

Kuk-Shimut

Kuk-Shimut, also written Kuk-Simut, was a scribe of Elam's Shimashki period around the 20th century BC, known from a seal inscription recording that Idadu gave it to him.

Kur-Ishshak

Kur-Ishshak is the conventional modern name for the third ruler of Awan in the Sumerian King List, known only from a damaged name, ca. 2500–2400 BC.

Kutir-Nahhunte

Kutir-Nahhunte, also written Kutir-Naḫḫunte or Kudur-Nahhunte, was king of Elam of the Shutrukid dynasty, reigning about 1155 to 1150 BC. He removed the statue of Marduk from Babylon to Elam, ending the Kassite dynasty.

Luh-ishan

Luh-ishan (Luḫ-iššan) was the eighth king of the Awan dynasty of Elam around 2300 BC, named among defeated opponents in Sargon of Akkad's victory inscription.

Nahhunte-Utu

Nahhunte-Utu (Naḫḫunte-Utu) was an Elamite queen of the Shutrukid dynasty in the 12th century BC, known from royal inscriptions and one of only two politically important Middle Elamite women.

Napi-Ilhush

Napi-Ilhush was a king of Awan, the dynastic seat of Elamite rulers in ancient western Iran, listed sixth on the Awan King List from Susa, probably of the mid-third millennium BC.

Napir-Asu

Napir-Asu was a queen of Elam, wife of the Middle Elamite king Untash-Napirisha, known from a life-size bronze statue found at Susa in 1903 and displayed in the Louvre.

Pahir-ishshan

Pahir-iššan, also written Paḫir-iššan, was a king of Elam in the 14th century BC, son of the dynasty founder Igi-halki and father of the later kings Unpahaš-Napiriša and Kidin-Hutran I.

Peli (king of Awan)

Peli is the first of the twelve kings of Awan in Elam listed on an Old Babylonian king list found at Susa, known only from that list itself.

Puzur-Inshushinak

Puzur-Inshushinak, also known as Kutik-Inshushinak, was the twelfth and last king of Awan, who ruled from Susa in southwestern Iran in the late 22nd century BC.

Shilhaha

Shilhaha, also written Silhaha, was an early ruler of Elam of the Sukkalmah dynasty around 1880 BC, later invoked by Elamite kings as a legitimizing ancestor.

Shilhak-Inshushinak

Shilhak-Inshushinak (Šilḫak-Inšušinak) was king of Anshan and Susa, son of Shutruk-Nahhunte, who led campaigns against Mesopotamia and rebuilt Susa from about 1150 to 1120 BC.

Shilhina-hamru-Lagamar

Shilhina-hamru-Lagamar was an Elamite royal figure of the Shutrukid dynasty, attested only in a later king's inscription as ruler after Hutelutuš-Inšušinak, around the end of the 2nd millennium BC.

Shimut-wartash I

Shimut-wartash I was an Elamite ruler of the early Sukkalmah dynasty who served as sukkal of Susa, deputy governing Susiana, under the sukkalmah Shilhaha in the early second millennium BC.

Shirukduh

Shirukduh was a sukkalmah, or grand regent, of Elam, ruling Anshan and Susa in the early 18th century BC as a contemporary of Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria.

Shushun-Tarana

Shushun-Tarana was the fifth king of Awan, a dynasty of Elamite rulers of the late third millennium BC, known only from a king-list tablet found at Susa.

Shutruk-Nahhunte

Shutruk-Nahhunte, also written Šutruk-Nakhunte, was king of Elam around 1185–1155 BC who raided Babylon and carried the stele of Hammurabi and the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa.

Shutruk-Nahhunte II

Shutruk-Nahhunte II (Šutruk-Naḫḫunte II) was king of Elam from about 717 to 699 BC, of the first Neo-Elamite Dynasty, who fought Assyrian expansion and was succeeded by his brother Hallušu.

Shutur-Nahhunte (son of Indada)

Shutur-Nahhunte, son of Indada, was a late Neo-Elamite ruler of the late seventh and early sixth centuries BC, known from the Izeh valley reliefs in Iran.

Sirukduh

Sirukduh, also spelled Siruk-tuh, was a sukkalmah of Elam in the early 18th century BC, when Elam acted as powerbroker among Assyria, Babylonia, Eshnunna, and Mari.

Siwe-palar-huppak

Siwe-palar-huppak, also written Siwe-palar-huhpak, was a sukkalmah, or grand regent, of Elam in the early 2nd millennium BC, a contemporary of Hammurabi who ruled over Mesopotamia for two years.

Siwe-Palar-Khuppak

Siwe-Palar-Khuppak, also spelled Siwe-palar-huppak, was a grand regent (sukkalmah) of Elam who briefly ruled Mesopotamia before an alliance led by Hammurabi of Babylon ended Elamite power in the west.

Tammaritu (son of Teumman)

Tammaritu was an Elamite prince of the mid-7th century BC, a son of King Teumman who died with his father at the Battle of Ulai in 653 BC.

Tammaritu I

Tammaritu I was an Elamite prince, son of King Urtak, whom Assurbanipal installed as client king in Hidalu after defeating Te'umman at Til-Tuba in 653 BC.

Tammaritu II

Tammaritu II was a king of Elam from about 652 to 649 BC, installed by Ashurbanipal of Assyria, deposed by his own servant Indabibi, and briefly restored in 647 BC.

Tan-Ruhurater

Tan-Ruhurater (Tan-Ruhuratir) was a ruler of the Shimashki dynasty of Elam, known from the Susa King List as the son of Idadu and father of Kindattu, who conquered Ur.

Temti-agun

Temti-Agun, rendered Zemt-Akone in Linear Elamite, was a ruler of Elam around 2000 BC, attested on silver gunagi vessels and cuneiform texts; scholars debate whether the name covers one ruler or two.

Tepti-ahar

Tepti-ahar, also written Tepti-Ahar or Tepti Ahar, was a king of Elam of the Kidinuid dynasty around 1400 BC, known from excavations at Haft Tappeh, ancient Kabnak.

Teumman

Te'umman was a Neo-Elamite king of the Hubanid dynasty who ruled Elam from 664 to 653 BC and died in battle against Ashurbanipal of Assyria.