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Kassite Babylonia and Middle Assyria: rulers and royal family

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Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur

Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur, also known as Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur, was a Middle Assyrian king, the 84th on the Assyrian King List, who reigned briefly around 1132 BC before his brother Mutakkil-Nusku drove him to Babylonia.

Nuabu

Nuabu is an early Assyrian king named on the Assyrian King List, twelfth of seventeen "kings who lived in tents" between Zuabu and Abazu; no contemporary records of him exist.

Nur-ili

Nur-ili was a king of Assyria of the early Middle Assyrian period, recorded as entry no. 63 of the Assyrian King List, son of Enlil-nasir I, ruling 12 years.

Puzur-Ashur III

Puzur-Ashur III, also written Puzur-Assur III, was a king of Assyria who reigned ca. 1521-1498 BC, known from the Assyrian King List and building inscriptions at Assur.

Shagarakti-Shuriash

Shagarakti-Shuriash (Šagarakti-Šuriaš) was the twenty-seventh Kassite king of Babylon, reigning c. 1245–1233 BC on the middle chronology, a generation before the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I captured his successor, Kaštiliašu IV.

Shalmaneser I

Shalmaneser I (Akkadian Šulmānu-ašarēd I) was king of Assyria in the Middle Assyrian period, reigning 30 years, 1263–1234 BC; his annals record the defeat of Šattuara of Hanigalbat and the burning of 180 cities.

Shalmaneser II

Shalmaneser II (Šulmānu-ašarēd II) was king of Assyria from 1030 to 1019 BC, a poorly documented Middle Assyrian ruler known almost entirely from the Assyrian King List.

Shamash-mudammiq

Shamash-mudammiq, whose name means "Shamash shows favor," was the fourth Babylonian king of the Dynasty of E, overthrown by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari II around 900 BC.

Shamshi-Adad II

Shamshi-Adad II (Šamši-Adad II) was a king of Assyria around 1600 BC, the 57th ruler in the Assyrian King List, with a reign of 6 years.

Shamshi-Adad III

Shamshi-Adad III (Šamši-Adad III) was a king of Assyria, entry 59 of the Assyrian King List, which credits him with a 16-year reign and a royal genealogy.

Shamshi-Adad IV

Shamshi-Adad IV (Šamši-Adad IV) was a king of Assyria who reigned from 1053 to 1050 BC, having seized the throne from his nephew Eriba-Adad II.

Sharma-Adad I

Sharma-Adad I, also written Šarma-Adad I, was an early second-millennium king of Assyria, entry 50 of the Assyrian King List, with a recorded reign of 12 years.

Shirikti-shuqamuna

Shirikti-shuqamuna, whose name means "gift of Šuqamuna", was a king of Babylon and the third and last ruler of the Bīt-Bazi dynasty, reigning only three months around 985 BC.

Shu-Ninua

Shu-Ninua (Šū-Ninua) was an Assyrian king, entry 54 of the Assyrian King List, who ruled 14 years and was succeeded by his sons Šarma-Adad II and Erišum III.

Simbar-shipak

Simbar-shipak, also written Simbar-Šiḫu, was a king of Babylon and the first ruler of the Second Dynasty of the Sealand, which took over after the Kassite dynasty fell.

Tiglath-Pileser I

Tiglath-Pileser I, also Tukulti-apil-Esharra I, was king of Assyria from 1114 to 1076 BC whose campaigns reached the Mediterranean and who composed the first known royal annals.

Tiglath-Pileser II

Tiglath-Pileser II (Tukultī-apil-Ešarra II) was king of Assyria from 966 to 935 BC, the son of Ashur-resh-ishi II and father of Ashur-dan II, during Assyria's recovery from a century of collapse.

Tukulti-Ninurta I

Tukultī-Ninurta I, son of Shalmaneser I, was king of Assyria c. 1233–1197 BC who captured Babylon, built a new capital at Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta, and was murdered by his son.

Ulam-Buriaš

Ulam-Buriaš, also written Ulamburiash, was a Kassite king of the Sealand, brother of Kaštiliašu III, who conquered the Sealand Dynasty in the mid-15th century BCE.

Yazkur-el

Yazkur-el is an early Assyrian ruler known only from the Assyrian King List, where he appears as the twenty-fourth entry, son of Yakmeni and father of Ila-kabkabi.

Zababa-shuma-iddina

Zababa-šuma-iddina was a king of Babylon, the penultimate ruler of the Kassite dynasty, reigning about one year in the mid-1150s BC before the dynasty fell.

Zuabu

Zuabu is an early ruler of Assyria known only from the Assyrian King List, where he appears as the eleventh of seventeen tent-dwelling kings, between Hanu and Nuabu.