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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = ca. 987 – 985 BC
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| predecessor = [[Eulmash-shakin-shumi|Eulmaš-šākin-šumi]]
| successor = [[Shirikti-shuqamuna|Širikti-Šuqamuna]]
| spouse =
| royal house = Bῑt-Bazi Dynasty
| father =
| mother =
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'''Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I''', “Ninurta protect my offspring/border” (the ambiguity may be intentional),<ref group=nb>CAD K p. 497: ''Ninurta-NÍG.DU-ŠEŠ''.</ref> ca. 987 – 985 BC, was the 2nd king of the Bῑt-Bazi or 6th Dynasty of [[Babylon]] and he reigned for 3 years, according to the ''King List A'',<ref group=i>''King List A'', BM 33332, iii 11.</ref> while the ''[[Dynastic Chronicle]]''<ref group=i>''Dynastic Chronicle''(ABC 18), v 10.</ref> records that he ruled for just two years. This was during an era of economic and political retrenchment.

==Biography==

A fragment of the Assyrian ''Synchronistic King List''<ref group=i>''Synchronistic King List'', KAV 182 iii 11 excavation reference Ass. 13956dh.</ref> names [[Ashur-nirari IV]] as his contemporary, rather than [[Ashur-rabi II]] who better matches the chronology currently favored. Two [[Lorestān bronze|Luristan]] arrowheads are inscribed with his name, and were probably votive offerings for temples, but there is a remote possibility that these belong to his later name-sake, who ruled for less than a year.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon Der Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Nab - Nuzi | volume = 9 | author = J. A. Brinkman | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 2001 | page = 525 }}</ref>

The Bīt-Abi-Rattaš [[kudurru]]<ref group=i>Kudurru BM 90835 BBSt No. IX top 1-25 in the British Museum.</ref> from the reign of [[Nabû-mukin-apli]], 978-943 BC, begins with a recollection of an earlier legal document from Kār-Marduk, which may have been his capital, dated to his 2nd year. It concerns a manslaughter settlement, where one Arad-Sibitti has killed the female slave<ref group=nb>''ḫarmītu'', a kind of slave, possibly linked to ''ḫarīmtu'', “prostitute” (CAD Ḫ pp. 101, 104).</ref> of Buruša the bow-maker, ironically with an arrow.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Homicide in the Biblical World | author = Pamela Barmash | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2004 | page = 43 }}</ref> The king pronounced judgement and commanded Arad-Sibitta to give the plaintiff seven slaves in compensation and this was witnessed by seven high-ranking witnesses,<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> of whom three were of [[Kassites|Kassite]] origin and one, Ammenna, the officer, a [[Hurrians|Hurrian]].<ref>{{ cite book | title = on the civilization and culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, Volume 10 | chapter = Hurrians in Babylonia in the late Second Millenium BC | author = J. A. Brinkman | editor = Martha A. Morrison | publisher = Eisenbrauns | year = 1981 | pages = 30–32 }}</ref>

He may be represented by the eleventh king in the ''Prophecy A''<ref group=i>''Prophecy A'', reverse ii 2-9.</ref> whose rule likewise endures for three years. This describes the apocalyptic events of the king’s reign with cities being destroyed, rebellion, hostility against Akkad, disconnection from the rites at the Ekur and Nippur, and fragmentary but ominous events involving the Amurru and weapons.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Fictional Akkadian autobiography: a generic and comparative study | author = Tremper Longman | publisher = Eisenbrauns | date = July 1, 1990 | pages = 153–154, 161 }}</ref> He was succeeded by his brother [[Shirikti-shuqamuna|Širikti-Šuqamuna]].

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==References==

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