Marduk-ahhe-eriba

Marduk-aḫḫē-erība, inscribed in cuneiform 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,^[1] ca. 1046 BC,^[2] ruled as 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,^[3] which first appears in Kassite times and is open to interpretation.^{[nb 1]} According to the Synchronistic Kinglist^{[i 2]} he was a contemporary of the Assyrian king Aššur-bêl-kala where only the beginning of his name appears below that of his immediate predecessor Adad-apla-iddina.

The only contemporary source is a kudurru^{[i 1]} (line art pictured),^[4] 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.^[5] The term Ḫabiru may represent a socio-economic rather than ethnic designation as the name Kudurrâ is possibly not linguistically of semitic derivation. The field was surveyed^{[nb 2]} by a diviner, a scribe named Nabû-ēriš the son of (i.e. descendant of) Arad-Ea, an administrator and a mayor.^[6]

It has been suggested that he is the 5th king represented in the Prophecy A^{[i 3]} by the single line, “A prince will arise, and his days will be short. He will not rule in the land.”^[7] This is a late Assyrian tablet found at Assur and first published in 1923, which narrates a sequence of 12 Babylonian kings.

• Habiru

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Kudurru BE I 2 149.
2. ↑ Synchronistic Kings List A.117, excavation reference Assur 14616c, ii 22.
3. ↑ Prophecy A, tablet VAT 10179 (KAR 421) obverse ii 19.

1. ↑ The Kinglist A, tablet BM 33332, iii 2 which gives the beginning of his name as: ^mdŠÚ-ŠEŠ-
2. ↑ Termed rēš eqli našû, to lift the head of the field.

1. ↑ J. A. Brinkman (1968). A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. Analecta Orientalia. p. 144. 
2. ↑ J. A. Brinkman (1999). "Isin". In Dietz Otto Edzard. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Ia - Kizzuwatna. Walter De Gruyter. p. 184. 
3. ↑ A. Poebel (1955). The Second Dynasty of Isin According to a New King-List Tablet. University of Chicago Press. p. 11. 
4. ↑ H. V. Hilprecht (1896). Old Babylonian Inscriptions Chiefly from Nippur, volume I part II. Philadelphia: Amer. Philos. Society. pp. 65–67.  text 149.
5. ↑ J. A. Brinkman (1999). Dietz Otto Edzard, ed. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Libanukasabas – Medizin. Walter De Gruyter. p. 374. 
6. ↑ Eleanor Robson (2008). Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. Princeton University Press. pp. 169, 174. 
7. ↑ Tremper Longman (July 1, 1990). Fictional Akkadian autobiography: a generic and comparative study. Eisenbrauns. p. 161.