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Ashurbanipal. Mother. Libbāli-šarrat. Sîn-šar-iškun ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Sîn-šar-iškun [5] [6] or Sîn-šarru-iškun, [7] meaning " Sîn has established the king") [6] was the penultimate king of Assyria, reigning from the death of his brother and predecessor Aššur-etil-ilāni in 627 BC to his own death at the Fall of Nineveh in ...
Aššur-uballiṭ II, also spelled Assur-uballit II and Ashuruballit II [4] ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Aššur-uballiṭ, [5] [6] meaning " Ashur has kept alive"), [6] was the final ruler of Assyria, ruling from his predecessor Sîn-šar-iškun 's death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC to his own defeat at Harran in 609 BC. [7]
Sinsharishkun's fate is unknown but it is assumed that he died in the defense of his capital. He was succeeded as king only by Ashur-uballit II ( r. 612–609 BC), possibly his son, who rallied what remained of the Assyrian army at the city of Harran and, bolstered by an alliance with Egypt, ruled for three years, in a last attempt to resist ...
- 626-609 BC
- Middle East
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Sin-shar-ishkun was a king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire between 627 BC and the collapse of the Assyrian Empire in 612 BC following the Battle of Nineveh. He was the son of the last great king of Assyria named Ashurbanipal and was a weak and ineffective ruler that was unable to prevent the Revolt of Babylon which saw the complete decimation of ...
Sîn-šar-iškun ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Sîn-šar-iškun or Sîn-šarru-iškun, meaning " Sîn has established the king") was the penultimate king of Assyria, reigning from the death of his brother and predecessor Aššur-etil-ilāni in 627 BC to his own death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC. Quick Facts Sîn-šar-iškun, King of the Neo ...
Sinsharishkun. Sîn-šar-iškun (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Sîn-šar-iškun or Sîn-šarru-iškun, meaning "Sîn has established the king") was the penultimate king of Assyria, reigning from the death of his brother and predecessor Aššur-etil-ilāni in 627 BC to his own death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Sinsharishkun (SSI), and there are enough Nippur contracts to show that SSI 0 cannot reasonably be placed earlier than AEI 3, i.e. at the earliest 628. One Nippur text seems to give a synchro-nism between SSI 0 and the third year of another king, whose name is uncertain.7 Babylon still dated by Kandalanu in ix.628 3. Borger, 60. 4. P.
