# Shutrukid dynasty

History of Greater Iran :
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Prehistory Kura–Araxes culture c. 3400 – c. 2000 Helmand culture/Jiroft culture 3300-2200 Proto-Elamite civilization 3200–2800 Elamite dynasties 2800–550 Lullubi/Zamua 3100-675 Marhaši 2550-2020 Bactria–Margiana Complex 2400–1700 Gutian Dynasty 2141-2050 Avestan period c. 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Kingdom of Mannai 10th–7th century Neo-Assyrian Empire 911–609 Urartu 860–590 Median Empire 728–550 Scythian Kingdom 652–625 Achaemenid Empire 550–330 Ancient kingdom of Armenia 331 BCE – 428 CE Seleucid Empire 330–150 Caucasian Iberia c. 302 BCE – 580 CE Greco-Bactrian Kingdom 250–125 Parthian Empire 248 BCE–224 CE Caucasian Albania 2nd century BCE – 8th century CE Roman Empire 27 BCE – 330 CE CE / AD
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The Shutrukid dynasty (c. 1200 – c. 1100 BC) was a dynasty of the Elamite empire, in modern Iran. Under the Shutrukids, Elam reached a height in power.

## History

Shutruk-Nakhkhunte was the founder of this dynasty. He took as wife a Babylonian princess, the eldest daughter of Melishihu of Babylon. Shutruk-Nakhkhunte and his three sons, Kutir-Nakhkhunte II, Shilhak-In-Shushinak, and Khutelutush-In-Shushinak were capable of frequent military campaigns into Kassite Babylonia (which was also being ravaged by the empire of Assyria during this period), and at the same time were exhibiting vigorous construction activity—building and restoring luxurious temples in Susa and across their Empire. Shutruk-Nakhkhunte raided Babylonia, carrying home to Susa trophies like the statues of Marduk and Manishtushu, the Manishtushu Obelisk, the Stele of Hammurabi and the stele of Naram-Sin. With these trophies, he attempted to give a new aura to Elam, as the conqueror of Babylonia. Shutruk-Nakhunte added his own inscription on the stele of Naram-Sin:
   "I am Shutruk-Nahhunte, son of Hallutush-Inshushinak, beloved servant of the god Inshushinak, king of Anshan and Susa, who has enlarged the kingdom, who takes care of the lands of Elam, the lord of the land of Elam. When the god Inshushinak gave me the order, I defeated Sippar. I took the stele of Naram-Sin and carried it off, bringing it to the land of Elam. For Inshushinak, my god, I set it as an offering."
In 1158 BC, after much of Babylonia had been annexed by Ashur-Dan I of Assyria and Shutruk-Nakhkhunte, the Elamites defeated permanently the Kassites, a dynasty which had ruled Mesopotamia for four centuries. They killed the Kassite king of Babylon, Zababa-shuma-iddin, and replaced him with Shutruk-Nakhkhunte's eldest son, Kutir-Nakhkhunte, who held it no more than three years before being ejected by the native Akkadian speaking Babylonians. The Elamites then briefly came into conflict with Assyria, managing to take the Assyrian city of Arrapha (modern Kirkuk) before being ultimately defeated and having a treaty forced upon them by Ashur-Dan I.
Kutir-Nakhkhunte's son Khutelutush-In-Shushinak was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon, who sacked Susa and returned the statue of Marduk, but who was then himself defeated by the Assyrian king Ashur-resh-ishi I. He fled to Anshan, but later returned to Susa, and his brother Shilhana-Hamru-Lagamar may have succeeded him as last king of the Shutrukid dynasty. Following Khutelutush-In-Shushinak, the power of the Elamite empire began to wane, for after the death of this ruler, Elam disappears into obscurity for more than three centuries.

## List of rulers

The following list should not be considered complete:
| # | Name | Succession | Title | Approx. dates | Notes |
| Middle Elamite II period (c. 1400 – c. 1200 BC) |||||||
| Shutrukid dynasty (c. 1200 – c. 970 BC) |||||||
| 1st | Hallutush-Inshushinak | Unclear succession | King of Anshan and Susa | Uncertain, fl. c. 1217 – c. 1184 BC | |
| 2nd | Shutruk-Nakhunte I | Eponymous founder of the Shutrukid dynastySon of Hallutush-InshushinakSon-in-law of Melishihu of Babylon | King of Anshan and SusaSovereign of the land of ElamLord of the land of Elam | Uncertain, r. c. 1184 – c. 1155 BC | temp. of: Meli-Shipak II Marduk-apla-iddina I Zababa-shuma-iddin |
| 3rd | Kutir-Nahhunte II | Son of Shutruk-Nahhunte I | King of Anshan and SusaKing of ElamKing of Babylon | Uncertain, r. c. 1155 – c. 1150 BC | temp. of: Enlil-nadin-ahi |
| 4th | Shilhak-Inshushinak I | Son of Shutruk-Nahhunte I | King of Anshan and SusaKing of Elam | Uncertain, r. c. 1150 – c. 1120 BC (30 years) | temp. of: Marduk-kabit-ahheshu Itti-Marduk-balatu |
| 5th | Hutelutush-Inshushinak | Son of Kutir-Nahhunte II | King of Anshan and SusaKing of ElamKing of Elam and Susiana | Uncertain, r. c. 1120 – c. 1100 BC | temp. of: Nebuchadnezzar I |
| Neo-Elamite I period (c. 1100 – c. 770 BC) |||||||
| 6th | Shilhina-Hamru-Lakamar | Son of Shilhak-Inshushinak I | King of Anshan and SusaKing of Elam | Uncertain, fl. c. 1115 – c. 980 BC | |
| Elamite dynasty of Babylonia (c. 980 – c. 975 BC) |||||||
| 7th | Mar-biti-apla-usur | Unclear succession | King of BabylonSon of Elam | Uncertain, r. c. 980 – c. 975 BC (6 years) | temp. of: Ashur-resh-ishi II |
| Elamite Dark Ages (c. 975 – c. 770 BC) |||||||
| 8th | Akshir-Shimut | Unclear succession | King of Anshan and Susa | Uncertain, fl. c. 1110 – c. 975 BC | |
| 9th | Akshir-Nahhunte | Unclear succession | King of Anshan and Susa | Uncertain, fl. c. 1100 – c. 970 BC | |
| 10th | Kara-Indash | Unclear succession | King of Elam | Uncertain, fl. c. 1070 – c. 830 BC | |
| Neo-Elamite II period (c. 770 – c. 688 BC) |||||||
| Humban-Tahrid dynasty (c. 830 – c. 688 BC) |||||||
| 11th | Unknown | Unclear succession | King of Anshan and Susa | Uncertain, fl. c. 821 BC | temp. of: Shamshi-Adad V |
| 12th | Humban-Numena II | Unclear succession | King of Elam | Uncertain, fl. c. 1100 – c. 821 BC | |
| 13th | Shutruk-Nahhunte II | Son of Humban-Numena II | King of Elam | Uncertain, fl. c. 1070 – c. 770 BC | |
| 14th | Shutur-Nahhunte I | Son of Humban-Numena II | King of Anshan and Susa | Uncertain, fl. c. 1050 – c. 760 BC | |