Marduk-bēl-zēri | |
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King of Babylon | |
Reign | 8th century BC |
Predecessor | Ninurta-apla-X |
Successor | Marduk-apla-uṣur |
House | Dynasty of E (mixed dynasties) |
Marduk-bēl-zēri, inscribed in cuneiform as dAMAR.UTU.EN.NUMUN[i 1][i 2] or mdŠID.EN.[x][i 3] and meaning 'Marduk (is) lord of descendants (lit. seed)',[1] was one of the kings of Babylon during the turmoil following the Assyrian invasions of Šamši-Adad V (ca. 824 – 811 BC). He is identified on a Synchronistic King List fragment[i 3] as Marduk-[bēl]-x, which gives his place in the sequence and reigned around the beginning of the 8th century BC. He was a rather obscure monarch and the penultimate predecessor of Erība-Marduk who was to restore order after years of chaos.[2]
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