Artashumara

Artashumara (Mittani Aryan: ; Akkadian:  ) was briefly king of Mitanni in the fourteenth century BC.

Name
The name is the Akkadian form of the Mittani Aryan name, which is a cognate of the Vedic Sanskrit term ऋतस्मर , meaning "he remembers Ṛta".

Reign
He is known only from a single mention in a tablet found in Tell Brak "Artassumara the king, son of Shuttarna the king" and a mention in Amarna letter 17. According to the latter, after the death of Shuttarna II he briefly took power but was then murdered (by someone named Tuhi) and succeeded by his brother Tushratta.