Marduk-shapik-zeri
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Marduk-šāpik-zēri,mdmar-duk-šá-pi-ik-zēri. ca. 1082–1069 BC, was the 7th king of the 2nd dynasty of Isin
Isin
Isin was an ancient city-state of lower Mesopotamia about 20 miles south of Nippur at the site of modern Ishan al-Bahriyat in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.-History:...

 and 4th dynasty 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...

 and he ruled for 13 years.Babylonian King List C 7. His relationship with his predecessor, Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē
Marduk-nadin-ahhe
Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē,mdmar-duk-nādin-áḫḫēmeš ca. 1099-1082 BC, was the 6th king of the 2nd Dynasty of Isin and the 4th Dynasty of Babylon.Babylonian King List C, line 6...

 is uncertain. His reign overlapped that of the Assyria
Assyria
Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...

n king Aššur-bēl-kala
Ashur-bel-kala
Ashur-bel-kala was King of Assyria from 1074 to 1056 BC. He was the son of Tiglath-Pileser I and succeeded after the brief reign of his brother, Asharid-apal-Ekur. After a 18 years reign, he prematurely died and was buried in the city of Ashur.He was succeeded by his son, Eriba-Adad...

 and his immediate predecessor(s) as the Synchronistic King ListSynchronistic King List, tablet KAV 216, excavation reference Ass 14616c, ii 18, 20. places him along side both Tukultī-apil-Ešarra
Tiglath-Pileser I
Tiglath-Pileser I was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian period . According to Georges Roux, Tiglath-Pileser was "one of the two or three great Assyrian monarchs since the days of Shamshi-Adad I"...

 and Aššur-bēl-kala.

Biography

He succeeded Marduk-nadin-aḫḫē, who may possibly have been his father or brother, during a time when the Arameans, driven by famine, were engaged in attacking the Assyrias under Tukultī-apil-Ešarra during his latter years, which Younger places in Tukultī-apil-Ešarra’s 32nd year, or 1081/80 BC. The events are recorded on a fragmentary chronicle.Assyrian chronicle fragment 4 8f. In a letter from the Babylonian astrologer Bel-ušezib to Esarhaddon
Esarhaddon
Esarhaddon , was a king of Assyria who reigned 681 – 669 BC. He was the youngest son of Sennacherib and the Aramean queen Naqi'a , Sennacherib's second wife....

, 681 – 669 BC, he wrote, “Bel has said: May Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, be seated on his throne like Marduk-šāpik-zēri! I will deliver all the countries into his hands!” and this may suggest that he was a younger son of Nabû-kudurri-uṣur or there was perhaps a struggle over the succession.

He repaired the E-zida at Borsippa
Borsippa
Borsippa was an important ancient city of Sumer, built on both sides of a lake about southwest of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates. The site of Borsippa is in Babil Governorate, Iraq and now called Birs Nimrud, identifying the site with Nimrod...

 as witnessed by a building inscription, reproduced on a neo-Babylonian tablet,BM 26295. from the reign of Kandalanu
Kandalanu
- Territory :Kandalanu was king over Babylonia, with exception of the city Nippur. His reign began in 648 B.C. when he was appointed by his overlord King Ashurbanipal of Assyria after the latter had crushed the Babylonian rebellion by Kandalanu’s predecessor, Shamash-shum-ukin.- Identity :Because...

 whose colophon records that it was copied by Nabû-šumu-līšir. He provided gifts to the temples of Ur
Ur
Ur was an important city-state in ancient Sumer located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate...

, Nippur
Nippur
Nippur was one of the most ancient of all the Sumerian cities. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind," ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone...

 and elsewhere. He rebuilt the wall of Babylon, the Imgur-Enlil, for which a fragmentary inscriptionBE I 148, ii 3-8. has come to light,in qé r[e-eb] ká.dingir.[raki ba-ba-[ti] ú-dan-n[in-ma] bàd im-gur-[den-lil] bàd x-[…] confirmed by the Eclectic ChronicleThe Eclectic Chronicle (ABC 24), tablet BM 27859 obverse lines 4 to 7. which continues,
The Synchronistic ChronicleSynchronistic Chronicle (ABC 21) ii 25-30. confirms the alliance with Assyria, probably forged to counter the growing threat from the Arameans, and notes that he died during Aššur-bêl-kala’s reign. 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"...

BM 104404, XII. records the recovery of certain landed property by Sin-Kabti-ilani the son of Shamash-shum-lishir the grandson of Kudurri. If the reference to Marduk-[…] can be identified with him in the Chronicle of the Market Prices,Chronicle of the Market Prices (ABC 23), broken tablet BM 48498, lines 14 and 15. the cost of goods was unexceptional.
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