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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Marduk-aḫḫe-eriba
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
| image = Marduk-aḫḫē-erība kudurru.jpg
| caption = Hilprecht’s line art for the Marduk-aḫḫē-erība kudurru<ref group=i name=kudurru>Kudurru BE I 2 149.</ref>
| reign = ca. 1046 BC
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| predecessor = [[Adad-apla-iddina]]
| successor = [[Marduk-zer-X]]
| spouse =
| royal house = 2nd Dynasty of [[Isin]]
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'''Marduk-aḫḫē-erība''', inscribed in [[cuneiform]] contemporarily as mdAMAR.UTU-ŠEŠ-MEŠ-SU, meaning: “Marduk has replaced the brothers for me,” a designation given to younger sons whose older siblings have typically predeceased them,<ref>{{ cite book | title = A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Analecta Orientalia | year = 1968 | page = 144 }}</ref> ca. 1046 BC,<ref>{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Ia - Kizzuwatna | chapter = Isin | author = J. A. Brinkman | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 1999 | page = 184 }}</ref> ruled as 9th king of the 2nd Dynasty of [[Isin]] and the 4th Dynasty of [[Babylon]], but only for around 6 months using the date formula: MU 1 ITI 6,<ref>{{ cite book | title = The Second Dynasty of Isin According to a New King-List Tablet | author = A. Poebel | publisher = University of Chicago Press| year = 1955 | page = 11 }}</ref> which first appears in [[Kassites|Kassite]] times and is open to interpretation.<ref group=nb>The ''Kinglist A'', tablet BM 33332, iii 2 which gives the beginning of his name as: mdŠÚ-[[ŠEŠ (brother Sumerogram)|ŠEŠ]]-</ref> According to the ''Synchronistic Kinglist''<ref group=i>''Synchronistic Kings List A.117'', excavation reference Assur 14616c, ii 22.</ref> he was a contemporary of the [[Assyria]]n king [[Ashur-bel-kala|Aššur-bêl-kala]] where only the beginning of his name appears below that of his immediate predecessor [[Adad-apla-iddina]].

==Biography==

The only contemporary source is a [[kudurru]]<ref group=i name=kudurru/> (line art pictured),<ref>{{ cite book | title = Old Babylonian Inscriptions Chiefly from Nippur, volume I part II | author = H. V. Hilprecht | publisher = Amer. Philos. Society | location = Philadelphia | year = 1896 | pages = 65–67 }} text 149.</ref> or gray limestone boundary marker, in a private collection in Istanbul, which records a land grant to a certain Kudurrâ, a “Ḫabiru” and servant of the king, in a region of northern Babylonia called Bīt-Piri’-Amurru.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Libanukasabas – Medizin | author = J. A. Brinkman | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 1999 | page = 374 }}</ref> The term ''Ḫabiru'' may represent a socio-economic rather than ethnic designation as the name ''Kudurrâ'' is possibly not linguistically of [[semitic languages|semitic]] derivation. The field was surveyed<ref group=nb>Termed ''rēš eqli našû'', to lift the head of the field.</ref> by a diviner, a scribe named Nabû-ēriš the ''son of'' (i.e. descendant of) Arad-Ea, an administrator and a mayor.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History | author = Eleanor Robson | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 2008 | pages = 169, 174 }}</ref>

It has been suggested that he is the 5th king represented in the ''Prophecy A''<ref group=i>''Prophecy A'', tablet VAT 10179 (KAR 421) obverse ii 19.</ref> by the single line, “A prince will arise, and his days will be short. He will not rule in the land.”<ref name=longman>{{ cite book | title = Fictional Akkadian autobiography: a generic and comparative study | author = Tremper Longman | publisher = Eisenbrauns | date = July 1, 1990 | page = 161 }}</ref> This is a late Assyrian tablet found at Assur and first published in 1923, which narrates a sequence of 12 Babylonian kings.

==See also==
* [[Habiru]]

==Inscriptions==

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==Notes==

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==References==

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{{Babylonian kings}}

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