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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Enlil-nādin-šumi
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = c. 1224 BC
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| predecessor = [[Kashtiliash IV|Kaštiliašu IV]]
| successor = [[Kadashman-Harbe II|Kadašman-Ḫarbe II]]
| spouse =
| royal house = [[Kassites|Kassite]]
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'''Enlil-nādin-šumi''', inscribed mdEN.LĺL-MU-MU<ref group=i name=kla>Kinglist A, BM 33332, ii 8.</ref> or mdEN.LĺL''-na-din-''MU,<ref group=i name=p>Chronicle P, BM 92807, iv 14, 16.</ref> meaning “Enlil is the giver of a name,” was a king of [[Babylon]], c. 1224 BC, following the overthrow of [[Kashtiliash IV|Kaštiliašu IV]] by [[Tukulti-Ninurta I]] of [[Assyria]]. Recorded as the 29th ruler of the Kassite dynasty, his reign was fleeting, just one year, six months, or perhaps ''only'' six months, depending on the reading of MU 1 ITI 6 in the Kinglist A,<ref group=i name=kla/><ref>{{ cite book | title = Materials for the Study of Kassite History, Vol. I (MSKH I) | author = J. A. Brinkman | chapter = Enlil-nādin-šumi | publisher = Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago | year = 1976 | pages = 124–125 }}</ref> before he was swept from power by the invasion of the [[Elam]]ite forces under the last king of the Igehalkid dynasty, Kidin-Hutran III.

==Biography==

The sequence of events in the aftermath of the fall of Kaštiliašu IV is by no means certain. Enlil-nādin-šumi may well have acceded in the power vacuum left by the capture of his predecessor in the two-year period between Assyrian campaigns, the latter of which led to the sack of Babylon and possibly the imposition of foreign rule. Alternatively, he may have been appointed as a vassal of the Assyrians following their conquest. Yamada’s recent reconstruction proposes that Tukulti-Ninurta's rule followed that of the three Kassite successors of Kaštiliašu, beginning with Enlil-nādin-šumi.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Tukulti-Ninurta I's Rule over Babylonia and its Aftermath - A Historical Reconstruction | author = Shigeo Yamada | journal = Orient | volume = 38 | pages =153–177 | doi=10.5356/orient1960.38.153}}</ref> A restoration of his name in the Assyrian Synchronistic Kinglist<ref group=i>Synchronistic Kinglist, ii 2.</ref> confirms him as a contemporary of Tukulti-Ninurta.

A small cache of tablets from the Merkes section of Babylon were once dated to his reign,<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Kurigalzu I and the restoration of Babylon | author = T Clayden | journal = Iraq | volume = 58 | pages = 109–121 | publisher = British Institute for the Study of Iraq | year = 1996 | jstor = 4200423 }}</ref> but are now thought to be dated to [[Enlil-nadin-ahi|Enlil-nādin-aḫe]]<ref group=i>Tablets VAT 13230 and VAT 21995, although the latter lacks the last element of the name.</ref><ref>{{ cite journal | title = Zur mesopotamischen Chronologie des 2. Jahrtausends | author = L. Sassmannschausen | journal = Baghdader Mitteilungen | volume = 37 | year = 2006 | page = 168 }}</ref> However, a document from Tell Zubeidi, a small rural community in the Hamrin basin of the upper Diyala river in northeastern Babylonia which was occupied during the 13th and 12th centuries, has an incomplete date of his reign.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Tell Imlihiye, Tell Zubeidi, Tell Abbas | author = R. M Boehme and H-W. Dämmer | publisher = P. von Zabern | year = 1985 | page = 77 }} and plate 161.</ref>

The Elamites, under their king Kidin-Hutran, called Kidin-Ḫutrudiš in ''[[Chronicle P]]'' which describes these events,<ref group=i name=p/> invaded and devastated Nippur and [[Der (Sumer)|Der]], including its temple of Edimgal-kalama, leading their people into captivity and bringing Enlil-nādin-šumi’s brief rule to an abrupt end,<ref>{{ cite book | title = A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Analecta Orientalia | year = 1968 | pages = 86–87 }}</ref> ''iṭrudma Enlil-nādin-šumi šarra ukkiš bēlussu'', as it puts it, “removed Enlil-nādin-šumi the king, and eliminated his rulership.” He was succeeded by [[Kadashman-Harbe II|Kadašman-Ḫarbe II]], whose reign was equally brief.

==Inscriptions==

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==References==

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