# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sinsharishkun
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:23.804Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/sinsharishkun"
name: "Sinsharishkun"
slug: "sinsharishkun"
description: "He inherited an empire that had dominated Western Asia for centuries and lost it all in fifteen years — not from incompetence, but from facing what no Assyrian king had faced in eight hundred years: enemies who wanted total destruction, not just conquest."
tagline: "Assyrian king"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "-700"
deathDate: "-612"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.704810836057917
  historical:           22.15688266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Sîn-šar-iškun took the throne in 627 BCE after his brother's death, possibly by force, and immediately confronted a general's revolt that briefly seized much of Babylonia. The chaos let Nabopolassar, a southerner of murky origin, rise in the power vacuum and carve out the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ending over a century of Assyrian rule in the south. Sîn-šar-iškun couldn't stop him despite years of campaigns, and by 614 BCE the Medes — technically still Assyrian vassals — had sacked Assur, the empire's ceremonial heart. In 612 BCE a combined Babylonian-Median force brutally razed Nineveh, the capital, while Sîn-šar-iškun was likely still inside. He fought with the same tactics that had built the empire, but internal revolts had bled the army, no one had planned for defending a heartland untouched for centuries, and the forces arrayed against him wanted annihilation, not submission.