Back ميلي شيباك الثاني Arabic ميلى شيباك التانى ARZ Melixiku Catalan Melišipak II. Czech Meli-Šipak German Meli-Shipak Spanish Melishikhu Basque ملی شیپک دوم Persian Meli-Shipak French Meli-Shipak II ID
| Meli-Shipak II | |
|---|---|
 Meli-Shipak II on a kudurru-Land presenting his daughter Ḫunnubat-Nanaya to the goddess Nanaya. The eight-pointed star was Inanna-Ishtar's most common symbol. Here it is shown alongside the solar disk of her brother Shamash (Sumerian Utu) and the crescent moon of her father Sin (Sumerian Nanna) on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II, dating to the twelfth century BC.[i 1] | |
| King of Babylon | |
| Reign | c. 1186 BC – c. 1172 BC |
| Predecessor | Adad-shuma-usur |
| Successor | Marduk-apla-iddina I |
| Died | c. 1172 BC |
| Issue | Marduk-apla-iddina I Ḫunnubat-Nanaya |
| Father | Adad-shuma-usur |
Meli-Šipak II, or alternatively Melišiḫu[nb 1] in contemporary inscriptions, was the 33rd king of the Kassite or 3rd Dynasty of Babylon c. 1186–1172 BC (short chronology) and ruled for 15 years.[i 3] Tablets with two of his year names, 4 and 10, were found at Ur.[1] His reign marks the critical synchronization point in the chronology of the Ancient Near East.
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- ^ Clayden, Tim. “KASSITE HOUSING AT UR: THE DATES OF THE EM, YC, XNCF, AH AND KPS HOUSES.” Iraq, vol. 76, 2014, pp. 19–64