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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Širikti-šuqamuna
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = ca. 985 BC
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| predecessor = [[Ninurta-kudurri-usur I|Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I]]
| successor = [[Mar-biti-apla-usur]] Dynasty of [[Elam]]
| spouse =
| royal house = Bῑt-Bazi Dynasty
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'''Širikti-šuqamuna''', inscribed phonetically in [[cuneiform]] m''ši-rik-ti-''d''šu-qa-mu-nu'' and meaning “gift of (the god) Šuqamuna”, ca. 985 BC, succeeded his fellow “son of Bazi,” [[Ninurta-kudurri-usur I|Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I]], as 3rd king of the Bῑt-Bazi or 6th Dynasty of [[Babylon]] and exercised the kingship for just 3 months, insufficient a time to merit an official regnal year.<ref>{{ cite book | title = A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Analecta Orientalia | year = 1968 | page = 164 }}</ref>

==Biography==

He was the last monarch of the Bīt-Bazi dynasty, which had reigned for 20 years 3 months according to the ''King List A'',<ref group=i>''King List A'', BM 33332, iii.</ref> and a contemporary of the Assyrian king [[Ashur-rabi II|Aššur-rabi II]],<ref group=i>''Synchronistic King List A.117'', Assur 14646c.</ref> ca. 1012–971 BC. He was named for the [[Kassite deities|Kassite god]] of war and of the chase, Šuqamuna, one of the two (with Šumalia) associated with the investiture of kings.<ref name=delitzsch>{{ cite journal | title = The Religion of the Kassites | author = Friedrich Delitzsch | journal = Hebraica | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | date = Jan 1885 | jstor = 527374 | pages = 189–191 }}</ref> The ''Chronicle Concerning the Reign of [[Shamash-shum-ukin|Šamaš-šuma-ukin]]'',<ref group=i>''Šamaš-šuma-ukin Chronicle'' (ABC 15), BM 96273, lines 20 to 21.</ref> a text containing disconnected passages from writing boards, names him as a brother of Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur, which is probably an error for the Ninurta-kudurrī-uṣur whom he succeeded.<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 | page = 297 }}</ref> A person with this name (which appears no where else) appears as the ''šakin bāb ekalli'', palace gate officer, and beneficiary of a land grant on a [[kudurru]]<ref group=i>Land granto to Širikti-Šuqamuna kudurru IM 74651, in the [[National Museum of Iraq]].</ref> but this was during the reign of [[Marduk-shapik-zeri|Marduk-šāpik-zēri]], some eighty years and ten reigns previously.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Ein ‘Grenzstein’ aus dem ersten (?) Regierungsjahr des Königs Marduk-šāpik-zēri |author1=F. Reschid |author2=C. Wilcke | journal = Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie | year = 1975 | volume = 65 | number = 1 | pages = 34–62 }}</ref>

The ''[[Dynastic Chronicle]]''<ref group=i>The ''Dynastic Chronicle'' (ABC 18) v 11.</ref> records that he was interred in a palace.

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