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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Ea-mukin-zēri
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = c. 1008 BC
| coronation =
| predecessor = [[Simbar-shipak|Simbar-šipak]]
| successor = [[Kashshu-nadin-ahi|Kaššu-nādin-aḫi]]
| spouse =
| royal house = 2nd Sealand Dynasty
| father =
| mother =
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'''Ea-mukin-zēri''', inscribed mdÉ''-[[a (cuneiform)|a]]-mu-kin-''NUMUN, son of Hašmar<ref group=i name=dynastic>''Dynastic Chronicle'' v 5-6: mdÉ''-a-mu-kin-''NUMUN LUGAL IM.GI [[DUMU (son Sumerogram)|DUMU]] m''Ḫaš-mar iti'' 3 ''in.ak, ina raq-qa-ti šá'' É-m''Ḫaš-mar qí-bir''.</ref> (DUMU, “son of,” ''ḫaš-mar'', a [[Kassites|Kassite]] word for “(the) falcon”<ref name=levine>{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Ha-A-A - Hystaspes | volume = 4 | chapter = Ḫašmar | author = L. Levine | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 1999 | page = 134 }}</ref>), was the 2nd king of the 2nd Sealand or 5th Dynasty of [[Babylon]], c. 1008 BC, but only for 3 months, according to the [[Dynastic Chronicle]],<ref group=i name=dynastic/> 5 months according to the ''Kinglist A''.<ref group=i>Babylonian ''King List A'', tablet BM 33332, iii 7: as md''Ea''(be)''-mu-kin''.</ref>

==Biography==

His predecessor was [[Simbar-shipak|Simbar-šipak]], c. 1025 to 1008 BC, and the ''Dynastic Chronicle'' records that he “was slain with the sword,”<ref group=i name=dynastic/> before describing Ea-mukin-zēri as “the usurper (LUGAL IM.GI).”<ref>{{ cite book | title = Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles | author = Albert Kirk Grayson | publisher = J. J. Augustin | year = 1975 | page = 215 }}</ref> Another person named Ea-mukin-zēri appears as a witness to a land deed<ref group=i>Stone tablet, BM 90937, BBSt. No. 27, bottom edge.</ref> dated to Simbar-šipak’s twelfth year,<ref>{{ cite journal | title = A Preliminary Catalogue of Written Sources for a Political History of Babylonia: 1160-722 B.C. | author = J. A. Brinkman | journal = Journal of Cuneiform Studies | volume = 16 | issue = 4 | year = 1962 | page = 92 | doi=10.2307/1359098}} 13.2.1.</ref> but is probably someone else as it records that he was the son of Belani and was the priest of [[Eridu]].<ref>{{ cite book | title = Babylonian boundary-stones and memorial tablets in the British Museum | author = L. W. King | location = London | publisher = British Museum | year = 1912 | page = 103 }} no. XXVII.</ref> The ''Synchronistic King List'' <ref group=i>''Synchronistic King List'' iii 3: as md''Ea-''(diš)-[…].</ref> makes him a contemporary of [[Shamshi-Adad IV|Šamši-Adad IV]] of [[Assyria]] but possibly for stylistic purposes as he was likely to have been one of the many Babylonian Kings who were contemporary with the later Assyrian King [[Ashur-rabi II|Aššur-rabi II]]’s lengthy reign.

The ''Dynastic Chronicle'' notes that “he was buried in the swamp of Bit-Hašmar,” presumably an ancestral homeland and possibly Darband-i-Ḫān, where the [[Diyala River|Diyala]] breaks through the Bazian range, at the northeast boundary of Namri according to Levine<ref name=levine/> or southern Babylonia according to Brinkman, perhaps even Bīt-Ḫaššamur, a town in the vicinity of [[Nippur]] according to Beaulieu. The practice of interring Mesopotamian kings in wetlands, “close to the abode of [[Enki]],” was a common practice and commented upon by ancient historians such as [[Strabo]]<ref>Strabo, Book XVI. xi. 2.</ref> and [[Arrian]] in his [[Anabasis Alexandri]], quoting [[Aristobulus of Cassandreia]]’s ''History of Alexander the Great''. This describes his inspection of the royal tombs, which were at least partially submerged and surrounded by reeds.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Swamps as Burial Places for Babylonian Kings | author = Paul-Alain Beaulieu | journal = NABU | issue = 53 | year = 1988 }}</ref> Burial in swamps "in the reeds of Enki" (gi-den-ki-ka-ka) were also recorded by [[Urukagina|Urukinimgina]], [[Ensí|''énsi'']] of [[Lagash]] (c. 2380 BC–2360 BC [[short chronology]]), in his reforms.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Les "Réformes" d’Urukagina | author = M. Lambert | journal = RA | issue = 50 | year = 1956 | page = 172 }} section 7.</ref>

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==References==
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