Ú- or Kidin-Ninua, inscribed mÚ-URU.AB x ?A,[i 1][i 2] the 54th king to appear on the Assyrian Kinglist, was the ruler of Assyria, ca. 1615-1602 BC (short chronology) or 1567-1554 BC (ultra-short), and was the son of his predecessor-but-one, Bazaiu, succeeding the presumed usurper, Lullaia, a son of nobody.[1]
Biography
The reading of the first element in his name is uncertain, as Ignace Gelb and Benno Landsberger originally proposed BAR, giving Kidin-Ninua, "[Under] the protection of Nineveh," while Arno Poebel read the name as beginning with []Ú- and Weidner read it as []I- on another fragmentary copy of the kinglist.[i 3] J. A. Brinkman observed that with the exception of this disputed interpretation, all transliterations gave Ú, reinforced by the Synchronistic Kinglist,[i 4] ?mÚ-ni?-nu-a, which had led to the preponderance for interpreting his name as u-Ninua in recent years,[2] he of Itar,[3] if Nina is correctly identified as a Babylonian name for this deity, although this remains unproven. A recleaning of the fragmentary kinglist,[i 3] however, has revealed a name collated by Heeßel to be [mki-d]in-dNINUA.[4]
There are no contemporary inscriptions of his reign.[5] He is recorded as having been a contemporary of Akurduana of the Sealand Dynasty in southern Babylonia in the Synchronistic Kinglist,[i 4] rather than any supposed ruler from the Kassite dynasty. The Assyrian Kinglist records that he reigned for fourteen years before being succeeded by his sons, arma-Adad II and then Erium III.
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