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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Ninurta-nādin-šumi
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = c. 1132-1126 BC
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| predecessor = [[Itti-Marduk-balatu (king)|Itti-Marduk-balāṭu]]
| successor = [[Nebuchadnezzar I|Nabû-kudurrῑ-uṣur I]]
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| royal house = 2nd Dynasty of [[Isin]]
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'''Ninurta-nādin-šumi''',<ref group=nb>''Ninurta-nādin-šumāti'' in the ''Chronicle of Aššur-reš-iši''.</ref> inscribed <sup>md</sup>MAŠ-''na-din''-MU<ref group=i>Babylonian ''King List C'', 3.</ref> or <sup>d</sup>NIN.IB-SUM-MU,<ref group=i name=lorestan>Dagger, Musée du Louvre, L. 36 cm; another dagger on Tehran art market.</ref> “[[Ninurta]] (is) giver of progeny,”<ref name=pkb>{{ cite book | title = A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Analecta Orientalia | year = 1968 | pages = 98–101 }}</ref> c. 1132-1126 BC, was the 3rd king of the 2nd dynasty of [[Isin]] and 4th dynasty of [[Babylon]]. He reigned for seven years, contemporaneously with [[Ashur-resh-ishi I|Aššur-reš-iši]],<ref group=i>''Synchronistic King List'', KAV 216, Ass. 14616c, ii 14.</ref> c. 1133 to 1115 BC, the [[Assyria]]n king with whom he clashed.

== Biography ==
His relationship with his immediate predecessor, [[Itti-Marduk-balatu (king)|Itti-Marduk-balāṭu]], is uncertain. Two brief identical inscriptions written in his name on [[Lorestān bronze]] daggers<ref group=i name=lorestan/> give a grandiose titulary, “king of the world, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad,” which would be slavishly imitated by his successors.<ref>{{ cite book | title = A survey of Persian art from prehistoric times to the present, Volume 1 | author = Phyllis Ackerman | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1965 | pages = 275, 279 }}</ref> Also, a [[kudurru]] has been tentatively dated to this period.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Vier Grenzsteinurkunden Merodachbaladans I von Balylonien | author = R. Borger | journal = Archiv für Orientforschungen | issue = 23 | year = 1970 | page = 26 }}</ref> A fragmentary epic<ref group=i>The ''Chronicle of Aššur-reš-iši'', VAT 10281, [http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/cm/assur-res-isi.html translation at Livius].</ref> describes the conflict between the Assyrian king, Aššur-reš-iši, and Ninurta-nādin-šumi, when the disputed upper Diyala border region and the city of [[Arbil|Arbela]] were contested between them, and suggests the Babylonians withdrew (“fled”) the city on the approach of Assyrian forces.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Mesopotamian Chronicles | author = [[Jean-Jacques Glassner]] | publisher = | year = 2004 | pages = 186–187 }} CM 14.</ref> Although the text is too fragmentary to provide a firm interpretation, it is probably significant that his forces (''emūqīšu'') penetrated so far north into the Assyrian heartland.<ref name=pkb/>

He may be the author of a rather condescending letter to Aššur-reš-iši, preserved in two pieces, in which he chastises the Assyrian king for failing to keep an appointment in the border town of Zaqqa, “If only you had waited one day for me in the city of Zaqqa!.” He threatens to reinstate on the Assyrian throne the king’s predecessor to his predecessor, [[Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur]], who had supposedly been welcomed in exile in Babylon following his overthrow by [[Mutakkil-Nusku]], according to a later chronicle.<ref name=edwards>{{ cite book | title = Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 2, Part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region, c. 1380-1000 BC | chapter = XXXI: Assyria and Babylonia, c. 1200-1000 BC | author = D. J. Wiseman | editor = I. E. S. Edwards | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 1975 | pages = 448–449 }}</ref> The text features three characters: the servant Qunnutu, his master Ashur-shumu-lishir, possibly another pretender to the Assyrian throne, and Ḫarbi-šipak, the Habirū, who may be an envoy of the Babylonian king, but with no other ancient reference to these individuals their roles are uncertain.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Volume 1 | author = A. K. Grayson | publisher = Otto Harrassowitz | year = 1972 | pages = 143–146 }}</ref>

He was primarily remembered in antiquity as the father of his successor, the celebrated king [[Nebuchadnezzar I|Nabû-kudurrῑ-uṣur I]]. His descendants continued to reign through three more generations until the seventh king of the dynasty, [[Marduk-shapik-zeri|Marduk-šāpik-zēri]].<ref name=pkb/>

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== References ==
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