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Baba-aha-iddina

Field	Value
name	Baba-aḫa-iddina
title	King of Babylon
reign	ca. 812 BC
predecessor	Marduk-balāssu-iqbi
successor	Interregnum

royal house	Dynasty of E
(mixed dynasties)

Ninurta-apla-X (earliest known successor) (mixed dynasties)

Bāba-aḫa-iddina, typically inscribed mdBA.Ú-PAB-AŠSynchronistic 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, but probably for less than a year. He briefly succeeded Marduk-balāssu-iqbi, who had been deposed by the Assyrians, 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. from the second year of Marduk-balāssu-iqbi which records him as a witness: mdBA.Ú-ŠEŠ-SUM*-na* DUMU mli-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 [him]. By means of boring and siege machines [I c]aptured that [city]. Bāba-aḫa-iddina together with the standard (durigallu)... 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 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 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

J. A. Brinkman. (1968). "A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C.". Analecta Orientalia.
This is a prebend grantLegal text A 33600, excavation reference 4NT 3, 17’.
J. A. Brinkman. (1998). "The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 1, Part II: B–G". The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.
A. K. Grayson. (1975). "Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles". J. J. Augustin.
Jean-Jacques Glassner. (2004). "Mesopotamian chronicles". Brill.
M. Christine Tetley. (2004). "The reconstructed chronology of the Divided Kingdom". Eisenbrauns.
I. L. Finkel, J. E. Reade. (2000). "Semiramis and the king of Babylon". NABU.

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