Nabû-šuma-iškun, inscribed
mdNabû-šuma-iškunun, was king of
Babylon, speculatively ca. 761 – 748 BC (see below for provenance), and ruled during a time of great civil unrest. He came from the Bit-Dakkuri tribe, a
Chaldean group apparently unrelated to that of his immediate predecessor,
Eriba-Marduk.