Marduk-aḫḫē-erība, inscribed in
cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-sh ...
contemporarily as
mdAMAR.UTU-ŠEŠ-MEŠ-SU, meaning: “Marduk has replaced the brothers for me,” a designation given to younger sons whose older siblings have typically predeceased them, ruled 1042 BC as the 9th king of the 2nd Dynasty of
Isin and the 4th Dynasty of
Babylon, but only for around 6 months using the date formula:
MU 1
ITI 6, which first appears in
Kassite
The Kassites () were people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire c. 1531 BC and until c. 1155 BC (short chronology).
They gained control of Babylonia after the Hittite sack of Babylon ...
times and is open to interpretation. According to the ''Synchronistic Kinglist''
[''Synchronistic Kings List A.117'', excavation reference Assur 14616c, ii 22.] he was a contemporary of 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 ...
n king
Aššur-bêl-kala where only the beginning of his name appears below that of his immediate predecessor
Adad-apla-iddina.
Biography
The only contemporary source is a
kudurru[ (line art pictured), or gray limestone boundary marker, in a private collection in Istanbul, which records a land grant to a certain Kudurrâ, a “ Ḫabiru” and servant of the king, in a region of northern Babylonia called Bīt-Piri’-Amurru. The term ''Ḫabiru'' may be a socio-economic designation rather than an indication of "Hebrew" ethnicity, since the name ''Kudurrâ'' is possibly not linguistically of semitic derivation. The field was surveyed by a diviner, a scribe named Nabû-ēriš the ''son of'' (i.e. descendant of) Arad-Ea, an administrator and a mayor.][''Prophecy A'', tablet VAT 10179 (KAR 421) obverse ii 19.] by the single line, “A prince will arise, and his days will be short. He will not rule in the land.”
See also
* Habiru
Inscriptions
Notes
References
{{Babylonian kings
11th-century BC Babylonian kings