Nabû-mukin-apli, typically inscribed dAG-DU-A, Nabû (is) establisher of a legitimate heir,[1] 978 943 BC, founded Babylons 8th dynasty, the so-called Dynasty of E, and ruled for 36 years.[i 2] The Synchronistic Kinglist records him as a contemporary of Assyrian king Tukulti-apil-Earra II.[i 3] 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 Chronicle[i 4] but without any surviving historical information. The Religious Chronicle[i 5] provides the most detail about his reign. The Akitu festival, or New Years 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),[i 1] in southern Iraq, records a legal settlement, in his 25th year, 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 bit-Abi-Ratta, but had passed through marriage to the family of Burua, a bow-maker. To complicate things, Arad-Sibitti had inadvertently killed Buruas slave with an arrow during the earlier reign of Ninurta-kudurri-u?ur I, ca. 987 985 BC. Burua had to pay 887 shekels to secure title against the various liens imposed by Arad-Sibittis creditors. The kings three sons are listed as witnesses to the settlement.[2] A recently identified kudurru from the east of the Tigris in the Diyala region on the Mingatu-karitu canal is dated to his 16th year and details the sales of two plots of land.[3] There is another kudurru fragment[i 6] but it is badly damaged and gives no useful information concerning his reign.[4] A single unpublished economic text in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland, is dated to his reign.[5]
His younger son, Rimut-ili, acted as atam ekurrati, overseer of the temples.[6] He was succeeded by his other sons, firstly Ninurta-kudurri-u?ur II, for 8 months, and then Mar-biti-a??e-idinna for an as yet undetermined period
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