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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Marduk-apla-uṣur
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = c. 780 – 769 BC
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| predecessor = [[Marduk-bel-zeri|Marduk-bēl-zēri]]
| successor = [[Eriba-Marduk|Erība-Marduk]]
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| royal house = Dynasty of ''E'' (mixed dynasties)
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'''Marduk-apla-uṣur''', inscribed dAMAR.UTU-A-ŠE[Š],<ref group=i name=dynastic>''Dynastic Chronicle'' (ADD 888) vi 3’-5’.</ref> or mdŠID-A-[x],<ref group=i name=sync>''Synchronistic King List'' fragment VAT 11345 (KAV 13), 3’.</ref> meaning “O Marduk, protect the heir”, very speculatively c. 780 – 769 BC (absolute date and length of reign unknown), was a [[Chaldea]]n tribal leader who ruled as King of [[Babylon]] after the reign of [[Marduk-bel-zeri|Marduk-bēl-zēri]]. He is known only from three inscriptions and ruled during a period of chaos.<ref name=pkb>{{ cite book | title = A Political History of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. (AnOr. 43) | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Pontificium Institutum Biblicum | year = 1968 }}</ref>{{rp|215}} He should not be confused with the Marduk-apla-uṣur who ruled [[Suhu|Suḫi]] on the middle [[Euphrates]] and paid tribute to [[Shalmaneser III|Salmānu-ašarēdu III]] a generation or so earlier.<ref name=pkb/>{{rp|201}}

==Biography==

His [[Assyria]]n contemporaries were probably [[Shalmaneser IV|Salmānu-ašarēdu IV]] (783 - 773 BC) and/or [[Ashur-dan III]] (773 - 755 BC) and the latter one is known to have campaigned in northern Babylonia on three occasions: 771 BC (against Gannanāti), 770 BC (against [[Marad]]) and 767 BC (against Gannanāti again). Into the vacuum created by the devastation, the southern Chaldeans were able to rise to power and he seems to have been the first member of the tribal group to have made pretensions to the Babylonian throne.<ref>{{ cite book | title = The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 3, Part 1 | chapter = Babylonia c. 1000–748 BC | author = J. A. Brinkman |editor1=John Boardman |editor2=I. E. S. Edwards |editor3=N. G. L. Hammond |editor4=E. Sollberger | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1982 | pages = 310–311 }}</ref> His place in the sequence of kings is known from a ''Synchronistic King List'' fragment.<ref group=i name=sync/> His length of reign and dynastic affiliation are unknown, as he was recorded as belonging to a separate one from his predecessor and successor, but the [[Dynastic Chronicle]] records that “the dynasty of Chaldea was terminated. Its kingship was transferred to the Sealand,”<ref group=i name=dynastic/> and, as his successor was [[Eriba-Marduk|Erība-Marduk]], the archetypal ancestor figure of the later Chaldean monarchs, it is surmised his origins were with a different Chaldean group than that of Erība-Marduk's Bīt-Yakin tribe.

He is mentioned in a fragmentary Neo-Babylonian narrative text from Uruk<ref group=i>''Chronographic document concerning Nabu-šuma-iškun'' at [http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/cm/nabu-shuma-ishkun.html Livius], excavation number W 22660/0, published as SpTU III no. 58 and CM 52 in J. J. Glassner’s “Chronique Mésopotamiennes,” 1993, pp. 235–240.</ref> ("The [[Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun]]") which unfortunately provides no further enlightenment about his time apart from a passing observation that “forced labor and [[corvée]] were imposed.”<ref>{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon Der Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Libanukasabas - Medizin | volume = 7 | chapter = Marduk-apla-uṣur | author = J. A. Brinkman | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 1999 | page = 376 }}</ref>

==Inscriptions==

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==References==

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