Eulmash-shakin-shumi

Eulmaš-šākin-šumi
King of Babylon
Reignc. 1000–984 BC
PredecessorKaššu-nādin-aḫi
2nd Sealand Dynasty
SuccessorNinurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I
HouseBῑt-Bazi Dynasty

Eulmaš-šākin-šumi, inscribed in cuneiform as É-ul-maš-GAR-MU, or prefixed with the masculine determinative m, “Eulmaš (is) the establisher of offspring”,:p. 160,n. 971 c. 1000–984 BC, was the founder of the 6th Dynasty of Babylon, known as the Bῑt-Bazi Dynasty, after the Kassite tribal group from which its leaders were drawn. The Dynastic Chronicle tells us that he ruled for fourteen years, the King List A, seventeen years.