Nabu-shuma-ishkun

Nabû-šuma-iškun
King of Babylon
Line art for a kudurru of the time of Nabû-šuma-iškun
Reignca. 761 – 748 BC
PredecessorErība-Marduk
SuccessorNabû-Nasir
HouseDynasty of E
(mixed dynasties)

Nabû-šuma-iškun, inscribed mdnabû-šuma-iškunun, and meaning "Nabû has set a name", was king of Babylon, speculatively ca. 761 – 748 BC (see below for provenance), and ruled during a time of great civil unrest. He came from the Bīt-Dakkūri tribe, a Chaldean group apparently unrelated to that of his immediate predecessor, Erība-Marduk.