Marduk-apla-usur

Marduk-apla-uṣur, inscribed dAMAR.UTU-A-ŠE[Š], or mdŠID-A-, meaning 'O Marduk, protect the heir' was an 8th century BC Chaldean tribal leader who ruled as King of Babylon after the reign of Marduk-bēl-zēri. He is known only from three inscriptions and ruled during a period of chaos. He should not be confused with the Marduk-apla-uṣur who ruled Suḫi on the middle Euphrates and paid tribute to Salmānu-ašarēdu III a generation or so earlier. His place in the sequence of kings is known from a Synchronistic King List fragment. ("The Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun") which provides no further enlightenment about his time apart from a passing observation that "forced labor and corvée were imposed."

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