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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Nabû-mukin-apli
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
| image= Nabû-mukin-apli.jpg
| caption = Kudurru of the time of Nabû-mukin-apli<ref group=i name=kudurru>Kudurru BM 90835, BBSt LXVII, in the British Museum.</ref>
| reign = 978 – 943 BC
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| predecessor = [[Mar-biti-apla-usur|Mar-biti-apla-uṣur]] Dynasty of Elam
| successor = [[Ninurta-kudurri-usur II|Ninurta-kudurri-uṣur II]]
| spouse =
| royal house = Dynasty of ''E''
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'''Nabû-mukin-apli''', typically inscribed dAG-DU-A, “[[Nabu|Nabû]] (is) establisher of a legitimate heir,”<ref>{{ cite book | title = A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Pontifium Institutum Biblicum | year = 1968 | pages = 171–174 }}</ref> 978 – 943 BC, founded [[Babylon]]’s 8th dynasty, the so-called ''Dynasty of E'', and ruled for 36 years.<ref group=i>''Babylonian King List A'', tablet BM 33332 iii 15 in the [[British Museum]].</ref> The ''Synchronistic Kinglist'' records him as a contemporary of [[Assyria]]n king [[Tiglath-Pileser II]].<ref group=i>The ''Synchronistic Kinglist'' A.117, KAV 216 (Ass. 14616c), iii 9 ([[Istanbul Archaeology Museums|İstanbul Arkeoloji Műzeleri]]) and also fragments KAV 10 (VAT 11261, in the [[Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin]]) ii 3 KAV 182 (Ass. 13956dh) iii 6.</ref> His reign was plagued by [[Arameans|Aramean]] invasions, resulting in Babylon being cut off from its agricultural hinterland for several years and consequently being unable to celebrate the new year festival.

==Biography==

His reign falls in the midst of the Babylonian dark age and consequently his ancient sources are meager. He is mentioned in the ''[[Eclectic Chronicle]]''<ref group=i>''Chronicle 24'', tablet BM 27859, lines 17 and 18.</ref> but without any surviving historical information. The ''[[Religious Chronicle]]''<ref group=i>The ''Religious Chronicle'' (ABC 17), tablet BM 35968, iii 1 – iv 10.</ref> provides the most detail about his reign. The [[Akitu]] festival, or New Year’s festival of [[Marduk]] and Nabû, was interrupted several times, indeed for a stretch of nine straight years, because the “[[Aramaeans]] were belligerent.” Nabu's shrine is in the neighboring city of [[Borsippa]] and the festival seemed to involve the transport of cultic idols to the city of Babylon. The Kaldu ([[Chaldea]]ns) migrated into Babylonia, and settled in the far south east of Babylonia just after his reign.

A [[kudurru]] or boundary stone from Sippar (pictured),<ref group=i name=kudurru/> in southern Iraq, records a legal settlement, in his 25th year, of a feud over an estate in the district of the city of Sha-mamitu. It had formerly been the property of Arad-Sibitti, a provincial governor, and his cash-strapped [[Kassites|Kassite]] family, the bīt-Abi-Rattaš, but had passed through marriage to the family of Buruša, a bow-maker. To complicate things, Arad-Sibitti had inadvertently killed Buruša’s slave with an arrow during the earlier reign of [[Ninurta-kudurri-usur I|Ninurta-kudurri-uṣur I]], ca. 987 – 985 BC. Buruša had to pay 887 shekels to secure title against the various liens imposed by Arad-Sibitti’s creditors. The king’s three sons are listed as witnesses to the settlement.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Babylonian boundary-stones and memorial tablets in the British Museum | author = L. W. King | location = London | publisher = British Museum | year = 1912 | pages = 51–69 }}</ref> A recently identified kudurru from the east of the Tigris in the Diyala region on the Mingatu-karītu canal is dated to his 16th year and details the sales of two plots of land.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = A New Boundary Stone of the Reign of Nabû-mukīn-apli (978-943 BC) | author = Michaela Weszeli | journal = Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale | issue = 1 | volume = 104 | year = 2010 | pages = 99–130 | doi=10.3917/assy.104.0099}}</ref> There is another kudurru fragment<ref group=i>[http://cdli.ucla.edu/cdlisearch/search/index.php?SearchMode=Text&txtID_Txt=P268888 Kudurru CBS 13873] ([[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|University Museum]] Philadelphia).</ref> but it is badly damaged and gives no useful information concerning his reign.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = A Tenth-Century Kudurru Fragment |author1=Brinkman M.E. |author2=Brinkman J.A. | journal = Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie | volume = 62 | issue = 1 | year = 1972 | pages = 91–98 | doi=10.1515/zava.1972.62.1.91}}</ref> A single unpublished economic text in the [[Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva)|Musée d'Art et d'Histoire]], Geneva, Switzerland, is dated to his reign.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = The Cuneiform Collection in Geneva | author = Edmond Sollberger | journal = Journal of Cuneiform Studies | volume = 5 | number = 1 | year = 1951 | jstor = 1359571 | pages = 18–20 }} 2.9.</ref>

His younger son, Rīmūt-ilī, acted as ''šatam ekurrāti'', overseer of the temples.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Sons and descendants: A social history of kin groups and family names in the early neo-Babylonian period. | author = John P Nielsen | publisher = ProQuest | year = 2008 | page = 99 }}</ref> He was succeeded by his other sons, firstly Ninurta-kudurri-uṣur II, for 8 months, and then Mar-biti-aḫḫe-idinna for an as yet undetermined period.<ref>{{ cite book | title = The Cambridge Ancient History, Part 1, Volume III | chapter = Babylonia, c. 1000 – 748 BC | author = J. A. Brinkman |editor1=J. Boardman |editor2=I. E. S. Edwards |editor3=N. G. L. Hammond |editor4=E. Sollberger | year = 1982 | pages = 298–299 }}</ref>

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