Nabû-šuma-ukîn II, inscribed
m sup>d'Nabû-šuma-úkîn''
[''Kinglist A'', BM 33332, iv 5.] or
m''Šuma-''
'úkîn''[''Chronicle on the Reigns from Nabû-Nasir to Šamaš-šuma-ukin'' (ABC 1), i 16–18.] whose complete name is only known from the ''Kinglist A'', was a usurper and briefly king 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 ...
for one month and two days during 732 BC before he was swept aside by his successor,
Nabû-mukin-zēri.
Biography
His reign was so fleeting he was omitted from the ''
Ptolemaic Canon''. His
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , ''māt Aššur'') was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC t ...
n contemporary was
Tukultī-apil-Ešarra III who was too distracted campaigning in Syria to react to political events. He came to power as a disaffected former provincial governor leading a rebellion against
Nabû-nādin-zēri, the son and successor of
Nabû-Nasir.
He was deposed and replaced by the
Chaldea
Chaldea () refers to a region probably located in the marshy land of southern Mesopotamia. It is mentioned, with varying meaning, in Neo-Assyrian cuneiform, the Hebrew Bible, and in classical Greek texts. The Hebrew Bible uses the term (''Ka� ...
n chief, Nabû-mukin-zēri, of the Bīt-Amukani tribe, within weeks establishing a trend as later pretenders from the traditional Babylonian population were likewise to be displaced quickly by Chaldeans,
Marduk-zakir-šumi II by
Marduk-apla-iddina II in 703 BC and
Nergal-ušezib by
Mušezib-Marduk in 692 BC.
Inscriptions
References
{{Babylonian kings
8th-century BC kings of Babylon