Nabû-šuma-ukîn II, inscribed m[d]Nabû-šuma-úkîn[i 1]ormŠuma-[úkîn],[i 2] whose complete name is only known from the Kinglist A, was a usurper and briefly king of Babylon for one month and two days during 732 BC before he was swept aside by his successor, Nabû-mukin-zēri.
His reign was so fleeting he was omitted from the ''Ptolemaic Canon.[1] His Assyrian contemporary was Tukultī-apil-Ešarra III who was too distracted campaigning in Syria to react to political events. He came to power as a disaffected former provincial governor leading a rebellion against Nabû-nādin-zēri, the son and successor of Nabû-Nasir.[2]
He was deposed and replaced by the Chaldean chief, Nabû-mukin-zēri, of the Bīt-Amukani tribe, within weeks establishing a trend as later pretenders from the traditional Babylonian population were likewise to be displaced quickly by Chaldeans, Marduk-zakir-šumi IIbyMarduk-apla-iddina II in 703 BC and Nergal-ušezibbyMušezib-Marduk in 692 BC.[3]
^A. K. Grayson (1975). Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles. J. J. Augustin. p. 231.
^J. A. Brinkman (1968). A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. Analecta Orientalia. pp. 235–236.
^J. A. Brinkman (1984). Prelude to Empire: Babylonian Society and Politics, 747-626 B.C. Vol. 7. Philadelphia: Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund. p. 23.
