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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Eulmaš-šākin-šumi
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = ca. 1004 – 987 BC
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| predecessor = [[Kashshu-nadin-ahi|Kaššu-nādin-aḫi]] 2nd Sealand Dynasty
| successor = [[Ninurta-kudurri-usur I|Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I]]
| spouse =
| royal house = Bῑt-Bazi Dynasty
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'''Eulmaš-šākin-šumi''', inscribed in [[cuneiform]] as ''É-ul-maš-''GAR-MU,<ref group=i>In contemporary arrowheads, such as IMJ 74.049.0124 in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, at [http://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P429998 CDLI]</ref> or prefixed with the masculine determinative m,<ref group=i name=kla>''Babylonian King List A'', BM 33332, iii '10.</ref> “Eulmaš<ref group=nb>''Eulmaš'' was the name of the [[Ishtar|Ištar]] temple in the city of [[Akkad (city)|Agade]].</ref> (is) the establisher of offspring”,<ref name=pkb>{{ cite book | title = A Political History of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. (AnOr. 43) | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Pontificium Institutum Biblicum | year = 1968 | pages = 160–162 }}</ref>{{rp|p. 160, n. 971}} ca. 1004 – 987 BC, was the founder of the 6th Dynasty of [[Babylon]], known as the ''Bῑt-Bazi'' Dynasty, after the [[Kassites|Kassite]] tribal group from which its leaders were drawn. The ''[[Dynastic Chronicle]]''<ref group=i name=dynastic>''Dynastic Chronicle'' v 9.</ref> tells us that he ruled for fourteen years, the King List A,<ref group=i name=kla/> seventeen years.

==Biography==

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 [[Arameans|Aramean]] 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.<ref name=brinkman>{{ cite book | title = The Cambridge Ancient History (Volume 3, Part 1) | chapter = Babylonia, c. 1000 – 748 B.C. | author = J. A. Brinkman |editor1=John Boardman |editor2=I. E. S. Edwards |editor3=N. G. L. Hammond |editor4=E. Sollberger | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1982 | pages = 296–297 }}</ref>

An earlier character called Eulmaš-šākin-šumi, ''son of Bazi'', appears as a witness on a [[kudurru]]<ref group=i>BM 90840 i 29.</ref> recording a land grant<ref name=king>{{ cite book | title = Babylonian boundary-stones and memorial tablets in the British Museum | author = L. W. King | location = London | publisher = British Museum | year = 1912 | pages = 44, 122 }} no. VIII and XXXVI respectively.</ref> 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 another<ref group=i>Kudurru IM 90585, ii 10.</ref> confirming ownership of seven GUR of arable land to a certain Iqīša-Ninurta, where he is described as a ''sak-ru-maš'', “chariot officer.”<ref>{{ cite journal | title = A neglected Kudurru or boundary stone of Marduk-Nādin-Aḫḫē? | author = A. Livingstone | journal = Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale | year = 2006 | issue = 1 | volume = 100 | pages = 75–82 | doi=10.3917/assy.100.0075}}</ref> He may also appear on another small broken kudurru,<ref group=i>Kudurru from the Museum of Warwick, ii 12,</ref> 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-nadin-ahhe|Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē]],<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Assyriological Notes, No. 2 | author = A. H. Sayce | journal = Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archeology | volume = XIX | year = 1897 | page = 71 }}</ref> ca 1079 and 1076 BC respectively, 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''<ref group=i>''Assyrian King List'' A.117, Assur 14616c, iii 5 and also fragment (KAV 182) iii 2.</ref> has him contemporary with [[Shalmaneser II|Šulmanu-ašaredu II]], an unlikely pairing. The ''[[Religious Chronicle]]''<ref group=i>''Religious Chronicle'' ii 26-29 (restored).</ref> mentions the “goddesses, the troops” in his fourteenth year but the context is lost. The ''[[Eclectic Chronicle]]''<ref group=i>Chronicle 24: BM 27859, 14–15.</ref> 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]] festival.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles | author = Albert Kirk Grayson | publisher = J. J. Augustin | year = 1975 | pages = 36, 181 }}</ref> The [[Sun God Tablet]]<ref group=i>The ''Sun God Tablet'', BM 91000 i 24 – ii 17.</ref> of [[Nabu-apla-iddina]] relates that Ekur-šum-ušabši, the priest and seer appointed during the time of [[Simbar-shipak|Simbar-šipak]], complained that due to the “stress and famine under [[Kashshu-nadin-ahi|Kaššu-nādin-aḫi]],” an intermediate monarch, "the temple offerings of [[Shamash|Šamaš]] (had) ceased," prompting Eulmaš-šākin-šumi to divert flour and sesame wine from that allocated to the god [[Bel (mythology)|Bel]] and a garden in the new city district of Babylon for ongoing provisions.<ref name=king/>

There is an inscribed [[Lorestān bronze]] 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.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Phoinikeia Grammata. Lire et ecrire en Mediterranee Actes du Colloque de Liege, 15-18 novembre 1989 |editor1=Cl. Baurain |editor2=C. Bonnet | publisher = Peeters Publishers | year = 1991 | page = 104 }}</ref> The ''Dynastic Chronicle'' reports that “he was buried in the palace of Kar-Marduk.”<ref group=i name=dynastic/> He was succeeded by Ninurta-kuddurī-uṣur and later Širikti-Šuqamuna, both “sons of Bazi.”

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