Bāba-aḫa-iddina, typically inscribed ^mdBA.Ú-PAB-AŠ''Synchronistic Kinglist'' fragment, Ass. 13956dh, KAV 182, iii 14 and Ass. 14616c, iii 22 (restored). ' Bau has given me a brother', ca. 812 BC, was the 9th king of the Dynasty of ''E'', a mixed dynasty of kings of

Babylon Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-s ...

, but probably for less than a year. He briefly succeeded Marduk-balāssu-iqbi, who had been deposed by the

Assyria Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , ''māt Aššur'') was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC t ...

ns, a fate he was to share.

Biography

His name was traditionally the name of a second son. He may have been a ''paqid mātāti'' official attested in the earlier reign, possibly from the Babylonian nobility who was the son of an otherwise unknown individual named Lidanu. This is a prebend grantLegal text A 33600, excavation reference 4NT 3, 17’. from the second year of Marduk-balāssu-iqbi which records him as a witness: ^mdBA.Ú- ŠEŠ-SUM''-na'' DUMU ^m''li-da-nu'' LÚ. PA É.KUR. MEŠ. His reign was brought to its end by the sixth campaign of the Assyrian king, Šamši-Adad V, as described in his ''Annals'':Ashur Stele, AfO 9, p. 100, iv 15–29. "In Ni... I besieged im By means of boring and siege machines cptured that

ity The pyramid of Ity was probably the tomb of Pharaoh who reigned during the 8th dynasty. It has never been discovered and is known only from a cliff-face inscription at Wadi Hammamat in the Eastern Desert, where there were several quarries in P ...

Bāba-aḫa-iddina together with the standard (^d''urigallu'')... I took away." A more detailed account of the events following this victory is provided in the Synchronistic History: Šamši-Adad made no attempt to annex Babylonia which remained independent, though kingless for a period, but returned to Assyria where he spent his last year, according to the eponym record, "in the land." Finkel and Reade proposed a restoration of the final, broken part of the Synchronistic History to give: "

Adad-nirari III Adad-nīrārī III (also Adad-nārārī, meaning "Adad (the storm god) is my help") was a King of Assyria from 811 to 783 BC. Family Adad-nīrārī was a son and successor of king Shamshi-Adad V, and was apparently quite young at the time of hi ...

king of Assyria and B ba-aḫa-iddina king of Karduniaš towards each other bowed and drank wine. The welf re of their lands they established.." They suggested that a pro-Babylonian Šammur-amat, while acting as Assyrian regent for the boy-king Adad-nirari, may have moved to have Bāba-aḫa-iddina reinstated to stabilize their southern neighbor.

Inscriptions

References

{{Babylonian kings 9th-century BC kings of Babylon