Ninurta-apla-X

Ninurta-apla-X, speculatively ca. 800 – 790 BC, was the king of Babylon during the period of mixed dynasties known as the dynasty of E. The name as currently given is based upon a 1920s reading that is no longer supported by direct evidence as the document from which it was derived is now too badly damaged to discern the characters proposed.^[1]

His most recent predecessor known by name was Baba-aḫa-iddina, whose reign ended perhaps around twelve years earlier. During the interregnum there was no king for several years^{[i 1]} and then a succession of five whose names have not survived. The only records of events during this period come from the chronicles of the Assyrian eponym dating system. These record that Šamši-Adad V’s seventh campaign was against Babylonia. His successor, Adad-nirari III, initially campaigned in the west^{[i 2]} but during 802 BC the chronicle records “to the sea,” thought to be Sealand of southern Mesopotamia. In 795 and 794 BC he campaigned in Dēr.^[2] The Synchronistic History^{[i 3]} ended with his reign and records:

(The) king of Karduniaš, bowed down … He brought back the abducted people and granted them an income, privileges, and barley rations. The peoples of Assyria and Karduniaš were joined together. They fixed the boundary-line by mutual consent.

—Synchronistic History, Column 4, lines 15–16 and 19–22.

Ninurta-apla-X’s successor was the similarly obscure king, Marduk-bēl-zēri.

1. ↑ Chronicle 24 r 8.
2. ↑ Stele, BM 131124.
3. ↑ Synchronistic History (ABC 21), K4401a + Rm 854.

1. ↑ J. A. Brinkman (1982). "Babylonia c. 1000–748 BC". In John Boardman; I. E. S. Edwards; N. G. L. Hammond; E. Sollberger. The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 3, Part 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. 
2. ↑ Alan Millard (1994). Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire: 910 – 612 BC. Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. pp. 57–58.