Meli-Shipak II

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 1 daughter
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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