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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 ...
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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Sinsharishkun (Sin-shar-ishkun; Sîn-šarru-iškun, c. 627 – 612 BC), who seems to have been the Saràkos (Saracus) of Berossus, was one of the last kings of the Assyrian empire, followed only by Ashur-uballit II.Contents 1Early years2Last Strike against Babylon3War in the Assyrian heartlands4In literature5ReferencesEarly years He was the son ...
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. Succeeding his brother in uncertain ...
This tablet is a later copy of a letter from the last days of the Assyrian empire. In it, the last Assyrian king, Sin-sharra-ishkun, appears to reach out to the Babylonian king Nabopolassar, recognizing the latter’s rule and pleading to retain his own kingdom.
READE: ACCESSION OF SINSHARISHKUN. SSI 0 = AEI 4 is difficult to reconcile with the Nippur synchronism mentioned above, and involves an additional pair of coups at Nippur if the synchronism is reJected; it also fails to account for the three years allotted to AEI by the Harran inscription of Wabonidus' mother.
