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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Šamaš-mudammiq
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = ca. ? – 900 BC
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| predecessor = [[Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina|Mār-bῑti-áḫḫē-idinna]]
| successor = [[Nabu-shuma-ukin I|Nabû-šuma-ukin I]]
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| royal house = Dynasty of ''E'' (mixed dynasties)
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'''Šamaš-mudammiq''', inscribed md''Šamaš-''mu''mudammiq'' (mdUTU-''mu''-SIG5),<ref group=i>''Synchronistic King List'' fragment, KAV 182, Ass 13956dh, iii 9.</ref> meaning “[[Shamash|Šamaš]] shows favor,”<ref>CAD, d, “damāqu,” p. 63.</ref> was the 4th king of [[Babylon]] in a sequence designated as the Dynasty of ''E'' and ruled during the latter part of the 10th century. He was contemporary with the [[Assyria]]n king [[Adad-nirari II|Adad-Nārāri II]]<ref group=i>Chronicle 24, BM 27859, the ''[[Eclectic Chronicle]]'', r 2.</ref> with whom he sparred.<ref group=i>''Synchronistic History'' (ABC 21), tablet K 4401a + Rm 854, iii 1–8.</ref>

==Biography==

Of unknown ancestry, the duration of his reign is equally uncertain. That he followed [[Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina|Mār-bῑti-áḫḫē-idinna]] is indicated by the sequence on the Assyrian ''Synchronistic King List'',<ref group=i>''Synchronistic King List'' , KAV 216, Ass 14616c, iii 13.</ref> but Assyrian contact was scanty and this may merely record those rulers who had interacted, omitting those who did not. His rule marks the resumption of contacts characterized as “battles, alliances, shifting of borders, and (later) diplomatic marriages that seem to have bound the two countries together.”<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 = 169, 178–180 }}</ref>

The ''Annals'' of Adad-Nārāri II record that the Assyrian king conducted a campaign against Babylonia during the last decade of the 10th century although the precise chronology is vague, perhaps between 908 and 902 BC. He claims to have defeated Šamaš-muddamiq who “set up a line of battle at the foot of Mount Yalman,” possibly southeastern [[Hamrin Mountains|Jebel Hamrin]], when he attempted to make a stand in the pass and “his chariots, and teams of horses, (Adad-Nārāri) took away from him.”<ref>{{ cite book | title = Mesopotamian chronicles | author = [[Jean-Jacques Glassner]] | publisher = Brill Academic Pub | year = 2005 | page = 181 }}</ref>

{{ quote|…he who brought about the defeat of Šamaš-mudammiq, king of Karduniaš, from Yalman to the river Turan (DUR.AN.MEŠ). From Lahiru to Ugar-sallu, to the border of Assyria…All the land of (the cultic city of) [[Der (Sumer)|Dēr]] I conquered, [[Arrapha]] and Lubdu, the fortresses of [[Karduniaš]], I added to Assyria.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles | author = A. K. Grayson | publisher = J. J. Augustin | year = 1975 | pages = 208, 243 }}</ref>|Adad-Nārāri II|Annals, dated to the eponym year of Ili-napishti-uṣur, eunuch of the king }}

The fortresses were on the middle [[Euphrates]], less than 100 miles from Babylon.<ref>{{ cite book | title = The age of Solomon: scholarship at the turn of the millennium | chapter = Assyria and Babylonia in the Tenth Century | author = Steven W. Holloway | editor = Lowell K. Handy | publisher = Brill Academic Pub | year = 1997 | page = 210 }}</ref> Although defeated, there is no evidence he was met a violent end and he seems to have died around the turn of the century.

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