Marduk-apal-iddina I
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Marduk-apla-iddina I was a Kassite
king of Babylon
ca. 1171–1159 BC (short chronology). He was the son and successor of Meli-Shipak II, from whom he had previously received lands
, as recorded on a Kudurru
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Kassites
The Kassites were an ancient Near Eastern people who gained control of Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire after ca. 1531 BC to ca. 1155 BC...
king of Babylon
Babylon
Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...
ca. 1171–1159 BC (short chronology). He was the son and successor of Meli-Shipak II, from whom he had previously received lands
Melišipak kudurru-Land grant to Marduk-apal-iddina I
The Melishipak kudurru-Land grant to Marduk-apla-iddina I is a boundary stone of Melišipak, a Kassite ruler of Babylon ca. 1186–1172 BC . The land grant was made to his son, Marduk-apla-iddina I....
, as recorded on a Kudurru
Kudurru
Kudurru was a type of stone document used as boundary stones and as records of land grants to vassals by the Kassites in ancient Babylonia between the 16th and 12th centuries BCE. The word is Akkadian for "frontier" or "boundary"...
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See also
- Kings of Babylon