Shu-Ninua orŠÚ- orKidin-Ninua, inscribed^mŠÚ-URU.AB xḪA,^{[i 1][i 2]} the 54th king to appear on theAssyrian Kinglist, was the ruler ofAssyria,c. 1615 to 1602 BC, and was the son of his predecessor-but-one, succeedingLullaya, a “son of nobody.”^[2]

The reading of the first element in his name is uncertain, asIgnace Gelb andBenno Landsberger originally proposedBAR, givingKidin-Ninua, "[Under] the protection ofNineveh," while Arno Poebel read the name as beginning with [Š]Ú- and Weidner read it as [Š]I- on another fragmentary copy of the kinglist.^{[i 3]} J. A. Brinkman observed that with the exception of this disputed interpretation, all transliterations gaveŠÚ, reinforced by theSynchronistic Kinglist,^{[i 4]} ˹^mŠÚ-ni˺-nu-a, which had led to the preponderance for interpreting his name asShu-Ninua in recent years,^[3] “he ofIshtar,”^[4] 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.^[5]

There are no contemporary inscriptions of his reign.^[6] He is recorded as having been a contemporary of Akurduana of theSealand Dynasty in southernBabylonia in theSynchronistic Kinglist,^{[i 4]} rather than any supposed ruler from theKassite dynasty. TheAssyrian Kinglist records that he reigned for fourteen years before being succeeded by his sons,Sharma-Adad II and thenErishum III.

• 17th-century BC Assyrian kings

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