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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 612 BC. Succeeding his brother in ...
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.
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 ...
40,000. The Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire was the last war fought by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, between 626 and 609 BC. Succeeding his brother Ashur-etil-ilani ( r. 631–627 BC), the new king of Assyria, Sinsharishkun ( r. 627–612 BC), immediately faced the revolt of one of his brother's chief generals, Sin-shumu-lishir, who ...
- 626–609 BC
- Middle East
- Medo-Babylonian victory, Fall of the Assyrian Empire
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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.
Sardanapalus, legendary king of Assyria. He apparently represents an amalgamation of the characters and tragic fates of three Assyrian rulers: Ashurbanipal ( q.v.; ruled 668–627 bc ); his brother, Shamash-shum-ukin; and the last Assyrian king, Sin-shar-ishkun.
In 626 BC, early in the reign of the Assyrian king Sinsharishkun, a general called Nabopolassar used the political instability caused by an earlier brief civil war between the king and the general Sin-shumu-lishir to assault the cities of Babylon and Nippur.
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