Statue of Manishtusu. Elamite language inscription stating that the statue was taken from Akkad and brought to Susa in the 12th century BC by king Shutruk-Nakhunte. Held at the Louvre Museum as fragments SB 47 + SB 9099.[1]
King of the Akkadian Empire
Reign
c. 2270 BC – 2255 BC
Predecessor
Rimush
Successor
Naram-Sin
Issue
Naram-Sin
Father
Sargon of Akkad
Mother
Tashlultum
Manishtushu (Man-ištušu) (𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢, Ma-an-ish-tu-su) c. 2270-2255 BC (middle chronology) was the third (or possibly second) king of the Akkadian Empire, reigning 15 years from c. 2270 BC until his death in c. 2255 BC . His name means "Who is with him?".[2] He was the son of Sargon the Great, the founder of the Akkadian Empire, and he was succeeded by his son, Naram-Sin who also deified him posthumously.[3] A cylinder seal, of unknown provenance, clearly from the reign of Naram-Sin or later, refers to the deified Manishtushu i.e. "(For) the divine Man-istusu: Taribu, the wife of Lugal-ezen, had (this seal) fashioned".[4] Texts from the later Ur III period show offerings to the deified Manishtushu (spelled ᵈMa-iš-ti₂-su or ᵈMa-an-iš-ti₂-su). The same texts mention a town of ᵈMa-an-iš-ti₂-su where there was a temple of Manishtushu. This temple was known in the Sargonic period as Ma-an-iš-t[i-s]uki.[5]
^[1] Harper, Prudence Oliver, Joan Aruz, and Françoise Tallon, eds, "The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre", Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992 ISBN 978-0810964228
^Vinnichenko, Olga I., "On the Prepositions ‘Issu’ and ‘Isse’ in Neo-Assyrian", Orientalia, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 149–75, 2016
^William W. Hallo, "Royal Titles from the Mesopotamian Periphery", Anatolian Studies 30, pp. 89–19, 1980
^Cite error: The named reference Frayne was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Steinkeller, Piotr, "The Divine Rulers of Akkade and Ur: Toward a Definition of the Deification of Kings in Babylonia", History, Texts and Art in Early Babylonia: Three Essays, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 107-157, 2017
Manishtushu (Man-ištušu) (𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢, Ma-an-ish-tu-su) c. 2270-2255 BC (middle chronology) was the third (or possibly second) king of the Akkadian Empire...
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city at least from the reign of Manishtushu (c. 2270–2255 BC) onwards, as contemporary inscriptions dedicated to Manishtushu have been recovered from the...
succeeded by his son Rimush; after Rimush's death another son, Manishtushu, became king. Manishtushu would be succeeded by his own son, Naram-Sin. Two other...
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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. In...
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