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Eulmaš-šākin-šumi, inscribed in
cuneiform Cuneiform is a Logogram, logo-Syllabary, syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform script ...
as ''É-ul-maš-''GAR-MU,In contemporary arrowheads, such as IMJ 74.049.0124 in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, a
CDLI
/ref> or prefixed with the masculine determinative m,''Babylonian King List A'', BM 33332, iii '10. “Eulmaš''Eulmaš'' was the name of the
Ištar Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of war, love, and fertility. She is also associated with political power, divine law, sensuality, and procreation. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and As ...
temple in the city of
Agade Akkad (; also spelt Accad, Akkade, a-ka₃-de₂ki or Agade, Akkadian: , also URI KI in Sumerian during the Ur III period) was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia during a period of about ...
.
(is) the establisher of offspring”, 1000–984 BC, was the founder of the 6th Dynasty of
Babylon Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-s ...
, known as the ''Bῑt-Bazi'' Dynasty, after the
Kassite The Kassites () were a people of the ancient Near East. They controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire from until (short chronology). The Kassites gained control of Babylonia after the Hittite sack of Babylon in 1531 B ...
tribal group from which its leaders were drawn. The ''
Dynastic Chronicle The Dynastic Chronicle, ''"Chronicle 18"'' in Grayson's ''Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles'' or the ''"Babylonian Royal Chronicle"'' in Glassner’s ''Mesopotamian Chronicles'', is a fragmentary ancient Mesopotamian text extant in at least four ...
''''Dynastic Chronicle'' v 9. tells us that he ruled for fourteen years, the King List A, seventeen years.


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A small settlement near the Tigris in the 23rd century had been adopted by a minor Kassite clan by the 14th century, the name being co-opted as the ancestor figure for the tribe. In the midst of the turmoil inflicted by the
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migrations and the famines that drove them, Eulmaš-šākin-šumi seems to have seized the throne and possibly moved his capital to Kar-Marduk, a hitherto unknown location presumed to be less vulnerable to invasions of semi-nomads than Babylon. An earlier character called Eulmaš-šākin-šumi, ''son of Bazi'', appears as a witness on a
kudurru A kudurru was a type of stone document used as a boundary stone and as a record of land grants to vassals by the Kassites and later dynasties in ancient Babylonia between the 16th and 7th centuries BC. The original kudurru would typically be stor ...
BM 90840 i 29. recording a land grant no. VIII and XXXVI respectively. of twenty GUR arable land to Adad-zêr-ikîša, where he is called (amêlu)''šaq-šup-par ša mâtâti'', “officer of the lands” and also anotherKudurru IM 90585, ii 10. confirming ownership of seven GUR of arable land to a certain Iqīša-Ninurta, where he is described as a ''sak-ru-maš'', “chariot officer.” He may also appear on another small broken kudurru,Kudurru from the Museum of Warwick, ii 12, if his name has been deciphered correctly, but these three are dated to the tenth (first kudurru) and thirteenth (second and third kudurrus) years of the reign of Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, too early to be this monarch if the chronology and sequence of kings currently favored is followed, but quite possibly an ancestor. The ''Assyrian King List''''Assyrian King List'' A.117, Assur 14616c, iii 5 and also fragment (KAV 182) iii 2. has him contemporary with Šulmanu-ašaredu II, an unlikely pairing. The ''
Religious Chronicle The Religious Chronicle is an ancient Mesopotamian register of portents such as the straying of wild animals into urban areas and extraordinary natural phenomena which presaged the disruptions which interfered with the Akītu or new year festiva ...
''''Religious Chronicle'' ii 26-29 (restored). mentions the “goddesses, the troops” in his fourteenth year but the context is lost. The ''
Eclectic Chronicle The Eclectic Chronicle, referred to in earlier literature as the ''New Babylonian Chronicle'', is an ancient Mesopotamian account of the highlights of Babylonian history during the post- Kassite era prior to the 689 BC fall of the city of Babylon. ...
''Chronicle 24: BM 27859, 14–15. records that “(Marduk stayed) on the dais (in) the fifth year of Eulmaš-šakin-šumi, the king. The fourteenth year …,” which seem to refer to interruptions in the
Akitu Akitu or Akitum () () is a spring festival and New Year's celebration, held on the first day of the Assyrian and Babylonian Nisan in ancient Mesopotamia and in Assyrian communities around the world, to celebrate the sowing of barley. Akit ...
festival. The Sun God TabletThe ''Sun God Tablet'', BM 91000 i 24 – ii 17. of
Nabu-apla-iddina Nabû-apla-iddina (inscribed md''Nábû-ápla-iddina''na''Synchronistic History'', tablet K4401a (ABC 21), iii 22–26. or md''Nábû-apla-íddina'';''Synchronistic Kinglist'' fragments VAT 11261 (KAV 10), ii 8, and Ass. 13956dh (KAV 182), iii 11. ...
relates that Ekur-šum-ušabši, the priest and seer appointed during the time of Simbar-šipak, complained that due to the “stress and famine under Kaššu-nādin-aḫi,” an intermediate monarch, "the temple offerings of
Šamaš Shamash (Akkadian language, Akkadian: ''šamaš''), also known as Utu (Sumerian language, Sumerian: dutu "Sun") was the List of Mesopotamian deities, ancient Mesopotamian Solar deity, sun god. He was believed to see everything that happened in t ...
(had) ceased," prompting Eulmaš-šākin-šumi to divert flour and sesame wine from that allocated to the god
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and a garden in the new city district of Babylon for ongoing provisions. There is an inscribed
Lorestān bronze Luristan bronzes (rarely "Lorestān", "Lorestāni" etc. in sources in English) are small casting, cast objects decorated with bronze sculpture from the Early Iron Age which have been found in large numbers in Lorestān Province and Kermanshah i ...
sword and fifteen inscribed arrowheads, somewhat inappropriately inscribed with the title '' šar kiššati'', "king of the world," probably for use as votive offerings at temples rather than as offensive weapons. The ''Dynastic Chronicle'' reports that “he was buried in the palace of Kar-Marduk.” He was succeeded by Ninurta-kuddurī-uṣur and later Širikti-Šuqamuna, both “sons of Bazi.”


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