Širikti-šuqamuna, inscribed phonetically incuneiform^mši-rik-ti-^dšu-qa-mu-nu and meaning “gift of (the god) Šuqamuna”,c. 981 BC, succeeded his fellow “son of Bazi,”Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I, as 3rd king of the Bῑt-Bazi or 6th Dynasty ofBabylon and exercised the kingship for just 3 months, an insufficient time to merit an official regnal year.^[1]

He was the last monarch of the Bīt-Bazi dynasty, which had reigned for 20 years 3 months according to theKing List A,^{[i 1]} and a contemporary of the Assyrian kingAššur-rabi II,^{[i 2]}c. 1012–971 BC. He was named for theKassite god of war and of the chase,Šuqamuna, one of the two (with Šumalia) associated with the investiture of kings.^[2] TheChronicle Concerning the Reign ofŠamaš-šuma-ukin,^{[i 3]} 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.^[3] A person with this name (which appears nowhere else) appears as thešakin bāb ekalli, palace gate officer, and beneficiary of a land grant on akudurru^{[i 4]} but this was during the reign ofMarduk-šāpik-zēri, some eighty years and ten reigns previously.^[4]

TheDynastic Chronicle^{[i 5]} records that he was interred in a palace.

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