Rimush

Rimush (or Rimuš, Ri-mu-uš; died 2270 BC) was the second king of the Akkadian Empire. He was the son of Sargon of Akkad. He was succeeded by his brother Manishtushu, and was an uncle of Naram-Sin of Akkad. Naram-Sin posthumously deified Sargon and Manishtushi but not his uncle. His sister was Enheduana, considered the earliest known named author in world history. Little is known about his brother Shu-Enlil. There was a city, Dur-Rimuš (Fortress of Rimush), located near Tell Ishchali and Khafajah. It was known to be a cult center of the storm god Adad.

==Biography== According to the Sumerian King List, his reign lasted nine years (though variant copies read seven or fifteen years). There is one surviving year-name for an unknown year of his reign: mu ud-nun{ki} / adab{ki} hul-a "year in which Adab was destroyed". Tradition gives that he was assassinated, as recorded in the Bārûtu, a compendium of extispicy dated to the first millennium BC: "If the heart is like a testicle—an omen of king Rimuš, whom his courtiers killed with their cylinder seals". He was succeeded by his brother Manishtushu. The Ur III version of the Sumerian King List inverts the order of Rimush and Manishtushu.