| Shu-Ninua | |
| Issi'ak Assur | |
| Succession: | King of Assur |
| Reign: | 1615–1602 BC[1] |
| Predecessor: | Lullaya |
| Successor: | Sharma-Adad II |
| Father: | Bazaya |
| Issue: | Sharma-Adad II |
Shu-Ninua or ŠÚ- or Kidin-Ninua, inscribed mŠÚ-URU.AB x ḪA,[2] [3] the 54th king to appear on the Assyrian Kinglist, was the ruler of Assyria, 1615 to 1602 BC, and was the son of his predecessor-but-one, succeeding Lullaya, a “son of nobody.”[4]
The reading of the first element in his name is uncertain, as Ignace Gelb and Benno Landsberger originally proposed BAR, giving Kidin-Ninua, "[Under] the protection of Nineveh," while Arno Poebel read the name as beginning with [<small>Š</small>]Ú- and Weidner read it as [<small>Š</small>]I- on another fragmentary copy of the kinglist.[5] J. A. Brinkman observed that with the exception of this disputed interpretation, all transliterations gave ŠÚ, reinforced by the Synchronistic Kinglist,[6] ˹mŠÚ-ni˺-nu-a, which had led to the preponderance for interpreting his name as Shu-Ninua in recent years,[7] “he of Ishtar,”[8] if Nina is correctly identified as a Babylonian name for this deity, although this remains unproven. A recleaning of the fragmentary kinglist,[5] however, has revealed a name collated by Heeßel to be [<sup>m</sup>''ki-d'']in-dNINUA.[9]
There are no contemporary inscriptions of his reign.[10] He is recorded as having been a contemporary of Akurduana of the Sealand Dynasty in southern Babylonia in the Synchronistic Kinglist,[6] rather than any supposed ruler from the Kassite dynasty. The Assyrian Kinglist records that he reigned for fourteen years before being succeeded by his sons, Sharma-Adad II and then Erishum III.