Nabû-mukin-apli
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Nabû-mukin-apli, 978-943 BC, founded Babylon’s 8th dynasty, the so-called Dynasty of E, and ruled for 36 years.Babylonian King List A, tablet BM 33332 iii 15. The Synchronistic Kings List records him as a contemporary of Assyria
n king Tukultī-apil-Ešarra II
.The Synchronistic Kings List A.117, KAV 216 (Ass. 14616c), iii 9 and also fragments KAV 10 (VAT 11261) ii 3 KAV 182 (Ass. 13956dh) iii 6. His reign was plagued by 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.
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 (Chaldeans) settled in Sumer during his reign.
A kudurru
or boundary stone from Sippar (pictured),Kudurru BM 90835 in the British Museum. in southern Iraq, records a legal settlement 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 Kassite
family, the bīt-Abi-Rattaš, but had passed through marriage to the family of Buruša, a jewel-worker. To complicate things, Arad-Sibitti had inadvertently killed Buruša’s slave with a spear during the earlier reign of Ninurta-kudurri-uṣur I, ca. 987 – 985 BC. Buruša had to pay 887 shekels to secure title against the various leans imposed by Arad-Sibitti’s creditors. The king’s three sons are listed as witnesses to the settlement. There is another kudurru fragmentCBS 13873. but it is badly damaged and gives no useful information concerning his reign. A single unpublished economic text in the Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland, is dated to his reign.
His younger son, Rīmūt-ilī, acted as šatam ekurrāti, overseer of the temples. He was succeeded by his other sons, firstly Ninurta-kudurri-uṣur II, for 8 months, and then Mar-biti-aḫḫe-idinna.
Assyria
Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...
n king Tukultī-apil-Ešarra II
Tiglath-Pileser II
Tiglath-Pileser II was King of Assyria from 967 BCE, when he succeeded his father Ashur-resh-ishi II until his death in 935 BCE, when he was succeeded by his son Ashur-dan II. Little is known about his reign.-References:...
.The Synchronistic Kings List A.117, KAV 216 (Ass. 14616c), iii 9 and also fragments KAV 10 (VAT 11261) ii 3 KAV 182 (Ass. 13956dh) iii 6. His reign was plagued by 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 ChronicleChronicle 24, tablet BM 27859, lines17 and 18. but without any surviving historical information. The Religious ChronicleThe Religious Chronicle (ABC 17), tablet BM 35968, iii 1 – iv 10. provides the most detail about his reign. The AkituAkitu
Akitu was a spring festival in ancient Mesopotamia....
festival, or New Year’s festival of Marduk
Marduk
Marduk was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi , started to...
and Nabû
Nabu
Nabu is the Assyrian and Babylonian god of wisdom and writing, worshipped by Babylonians as the son of Marduk and his consort, Sarpanitum, and as the grandson of Ea. Nabu's consort was Tashmetum....
, 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
Borsippa
Borsippa was an important ancient city of Sumer, built on both sides of a lake about southwest of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates. The site of Borsippa is in Babil Governorate, Iraq and now called Birs Nimrud, identifying the site with Nimrod...
and the festival seemed to involve the transport of cultic idols to the city of Babylon. The Kaldu (Chaldeans) settled in Sumer during his reign.
A kudurru
Kudurru
Kudurru was a type of stone document used as boundary stones and as records of land grants to vassals by the Kassites in ancient Babylonia between the 16th and 12th centuries BCE. The word is Akkadian for "frontier" or "boundary"...
or boundary stone from Sippar (pictured),Kudurru BM 90835 in the British Museum. in southern Iraq, records a legal settlement 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 Kassite
Kassites
The Kassites were an ancient Near Eastern people who gained control of Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire after ca. 1531 BC to ca. 1155 BC...
family, the bīt-Abi-Rattaš, but had passed through marriage to the family of Buruša, a jewel-worker. To complicate things, Arad-Sibitti had inadvertently killed Buruša’s slave with a spear during the earlier reign of Ninurta-kudurri-uṣur I, ca. 987 – 985 BC. Buruša had to pay 887 shekels to secure title against the various leans imposed by Arad-Sibitti’s creditors. The king’s three sons are listed as witnesses to the settlement. There is another kudurru fragmentCBS 13873. but it is badly damaged and gives no useful information concerning his reign. A single unpublished economic text in the Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland, is dated to his reign.
His younger son, Rīmūt-ilī, acted as šatam ekurrāti, overseer of the temples. He was succeeded by his other sons, firstly Ninurta-kudurri-uṣur II, for 8 months, and then Mar-biti-aḫḫe-idinna.