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.
Sîn-šar-iškun had come to the throne in 627 BC following the death of his brother Aššur-etil-ilāni and was almost immediately faced by a revolt by the general Sîn-šumu-līšir in 626 BC, who successfully seized some cities in northern Babylonia, including Babylon itself and Nippur.
Aššur-etil-ilāni, also spelled Ashur-etel-ilani [3] and Ashuretillilani [4] ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Aššur-etil-ilāni, [5] [6] meaning " Ashur is the lord of the Tree"), [7] was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Ashurbanipal in 631 BC to his own death in 627 BC. [n 1] Aššur-etil-ilāni is an obscure ...
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.
Sîn-šum-līšir had seized the throne at the death of Aššur-etēl-ilāni in defiance of Sîn-šar-iškun, Assurbanipal’s younger son and legitimate heir to the Assyrian Empire. Through the dating formulae of some economic texts from Uruk, we can follow the struggle between one Assyrian pretender against another, and of both against ...
- Rocío Da Riva
- 2017
Translation of letter from Sîn-šar-iškun to Nabopolassar (86.11.370a,c–e)? Does anybody know of a translation for the copy of the letter from the last Neo-Assyrian ruler to Nabopolassar? The only bits I can find out about it are that he addresses Nabopolassar as "the king my lord", and seems to be trying to broker a peace deal.
he unseated the royal heir Sîn-šar-iškun (see Da Riva 2017: 81 and fn. 43). 4 Earlier studies have argued that Šama š- uma-ukīn was born to an ethnically Babylonian mother, but this has been convincingly dismissed, see Novotny and Singletary 2009: 174–76. Ethnicity is a complicated term when applied to
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