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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Baba-aḫa-iddina
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = ca. 812 BC
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| predecessor = [[Marduk-balassu-iqbi|Marduk-balāssu-iqbi]]
| successor = Interregnum (5 kings) ''then'' [[Ninurta-apla-X]]
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| royal house = Dynasty of ''E'' (mixed dynasties)
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'''Bāba-aḫa-iddina''', typically inscribed mdBA.Ú-PAB-AŠ<ref group=i>''Synchronistic Kinglist'' fragment, Ass. 13956dh, KAV 182, iii 14 and Ass. 14616c, iii 22 (restored).</ref> "[[Bau (goddess)|Bau]] has given me a brother,”<ref name=pkb>{{ cite book | title = A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Analecta Orientalia | year = 1968 | pages = 210–211 }}</ref> ca. 812 BC, was the 9th king of the Dynasty of ''E'', a mixed dynasty of kings of [[Babylon]], but probably for less than a year. He briefly succeeded [[Marduk-balassu-iqbi|Marduk-balāssu-iqbi]], who had been deposed by the [[Assyria]]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.<ref name=pkb/> This is a prebend grant<ref group=i>Legal text A 33600, excavation reference 4NT 3, 17’.</ref> from the second year of Marduk-balāssu-iqbi which records him as a witness: mdBA.Ú-[[ŠEŠ (brother Sumerogram)|ŠEŠ]]-SUM''-na'' [[DUMU (son Sumerogram)|DUMU]] m''li-da-nu'' [[LÚ (man Sumerogram)|LÚ]].[[pa (cuneiform)|PA]] É.KUR.[[Meš (cuneiform)|MEŠ]].<ref name=pna>{{ cite book | title = The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 1, Part II: B–G | author = J. A. Brinkman | editor = K. Radner | publisher = The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project | year = 1998 | pages = 247 }}</ref>

His reign was brought to its end by the sixth campaign of the Assyrian king, [[Shamshi-Adad V|Šamši-Adad V]], as described in his ''Annals'':<ref group=i>Ashur Stele, AfO 9, p. 100, iv 15–29.</ref> “In Ni.. I besieged [him]. By means of boring and siege machines [I c]aptured that [city]. Bāba-aḫa-iddina together with the standard (d''urigallu'')…I took away.”<ref>{{ cite book | title = Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles | author = A. K. Grayson | publisher = J. J. Augustin | year = 1975 | page = 244 }}</ref> A more detailed account of the events following this victory is provided in the Synchronistic History:

{{ quote|He encircled the city and he himself took it. He took Bāba-aḫa-iddina with his wealth and palace treasures to Assyria. He t[ook] the gods and the booty of [[Der (Sumer)|Dēr]], Lahiru, Gannanāti, Dur-Papsukkal, Bıt-riduti, Mê-Turan, numerous cities of [[Karduniaš]] with their surroundings. He took away [[Anu]] the great Ḫumḫumia, Šarrat-Dēri, Bēlet-Akkadī, Šimalyia, Palil, Annunītu, Mār-Bīti of Māliku. He went up to Cutha, Babylon (and) [[Borsippa]] (and) performed the sacred services. He went down to [[Chaldea]]. In Chaldea he received the tribute of its kings. His officers collected gifts from Karduniaš. He did [… Together they established] a permanent boundary line.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Mesopotamian chronicles | author = [[Jean-Jacques Glassner]] | publisher = Brill | year = 2004 | page = 183 }}</ref>| Synchronistic Chronicle|Column 4, lines 1 to 14.<ref group=i>The Synchronistic Chronicle (ABC 21) iv 1–14.</ref> }}

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.”<ref>{{ cite book | title = The reconstructed chronology of the Divided Kingdom | author = M. Christine Tetley | publisher = Eisenbrauns | year = 2004 | pages = 102–103 }}</ref> Finkel and Reade proposed a restoration of the final, broken part of the Synchronistic History to give: “[[Adad-nirari III]] king of Assyria and B[aba-aḫa-iddina king of Karduniaš towards each other], bowed and drank wine. The welf[are of their lands they established]…” They suggested that a pro-Babylonian [[Shammuramat|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.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Semiramis and the king of Babylon | author = I. L. Finkel, J. E. Reade | journal = NABU | year = 2000 | issue = 4 | page = 80 }}</ref>

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