Tammaritu II

{{Short description|Ruler of Elam from 652 to 650/649 BC}}

Tammaritu II was the ruler of Elam from 652 until 650 or 649 BC.Jane McIntosh gives the date of the end of his first reign as 649. {{cite book|author=Jane McIntosh|title=Ancient Mesopotamia: New Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9veK7E2JwkUC&pg=PA359|year=2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-965-2|page=359}}Potts gives the date of the end of Tammaritu's first reign as either 650 or 649 BC. D. T. Potts (1999). The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State. p. 282. After the brief reigns of Indabibi and Humban-haltash III, Tammaritu II was briefly restored to power in 648. Tammaritu II was the son of Tammaritu I and the successor of Ummanigash, his uncle.D. T. Potts (1999). The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State. p. 281.

After a failed attack in 652 BC by then Elamite king Ummanigash against the Assyrian Empire, Tammaritu II rose to power in a coup. Tammaritu continued Ummanigash's policy of supporting the Babylonian ruler Shamash-shum-ukin against the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.D. T. Potts (1999). The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State. p. 282. During the fighting, one of his generals, Indabibi, switched sides, and Tammaritu escaped to Nineveh in either 650 or 649 BC. Thus began the brief rule of Indabibi over Elam.

In 648 BC, Indabibi was killed and replaced by Humban-haltash III.Elizabeth Carter and Matthew W. Stolper (1984). Elam: Surveys of Political History and Archaeology. p. 50. The Assyrians then invaded Elam again, and installed Tammaritu once more as king of Elam.Elizabeth Carter and Matthew W. Stolper (1984). Elam: Surveys of Political History and Archaeology. p. 51. Tammaritu was then deposed and exiled by Assyria after complaining about the Assyrian plundering of Elam.{{cite book|author=D. T. Potts|title=The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mc4cfzkRVj4C&pg=PA283|date=29 July 1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-56496-0|page=283}} Humban-haltash III then ruled again over Elam.{{cite book|author=John Boederman|title=The Cambridge Ancient History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGBGauNBK8kC&pg=PA153|year=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-22717-9|page=153}}