Bāba-aḫa-iddina, typically inscribed
mdBA.Ú-PAB-AŠ
[''Synchronistic Kinglist'' fragment, Ass. 13956dh, KAV 182, iii 14 and Ass. 14616c, iii 22 (restored).] "
Bau has given me a brother,”
ca. 812 BC, was the 9th king of the Dynasty of ''E'', a mixed dynasty of kings of
Babylon
''Bābili(m)''
* sux, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠
* arc, 𐡁𐡁𐡋 ''Bāḇel''
* syc, ܒܒܠ ''Bāḇel''
* grc-gre, Βαβυλών ''Babylṓn''
* he, בָּבֶל ''Bāvel''
* peo, 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢 ''Bābiru''
* elx, 𒀸𒁀𒉿𒇷 ''Babi ...
, but probably for less than a year. He briefly succeeded
Marduk-balāssu-iqbi, who had been deposed by the
Assyria
Assyria ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...
ns, a fate he was to share.
Biography
His name was traditionally the name of a second son. He may have been a ''paqid mātāti'' official attested in the earlier reign, possibly from the Babylonian nobility who was the son of an otherwise unknown individual named Lidanu.
[ This is a prebend grant][Legal text A 33600, excavation reference 4NT 3, 17’.] from the second year of Marduk-balāssu-iqbi which records him as a witness: mdBA.Ú- ŠEŠ-SUM''-na'' DUMU m''li-da-nu'' LÚ
The cuneiform sign LÚ () is the sign used for "man"; its complement is the symbol for woman: '' šal'' (). Cuneiform ''LÚ'', (or ''lú'' as rendered in some texts) is found as a Sumerogram in the '' Epic of Gilgamesh''. It also has a commo ...
. PA É.KUR. MEŠ.[Ashur Stele, AfO 9, p. 100, iv 15–29.] “In Ni.. I besieged im By means of boring and siege machines cptured that ity Bāba-aḫa-iddina together with the standard (d''urigallu'')…I took away.” A more detailed account of the events following this victory is provided in the Synchronistic History:
Šamši-Adad made no attempt to annex Babylonia which remained independent, though kingless for a period, but returned to Assyria where he spent his last year, according to the eponym record, “in the land.” Finkel and Reade proposed a restoration of the final, broken part of the Synchronistic History to give: “Adad-nirari III
Adad-nirari III (also Adad-narari) was a King of Assyria from 811 to 783 BC. Note that this assumes that the longer version of the Assyrian Eponym List, which has an additional eponym for Adad-nirari III, is the correct one. For the shorter eponym ...
king of Assyria and B ba-aḫa-iddina king of Karduniaš towards each other bowed and drank wine. The welf re of their lands they established” They suggested that a pro-Babylonian Šammur-amat, while acting as Assyrian regent for the boy-king Adad-nirari, may have moved to have Bāba-aḫa-iddina reinstated to stabilize their southern neighbor.
Inscriptions
References
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9th-century BC Babylonian kings
9th-century BC rulers