Itti-Marduk-balatu (king)

Itti-Marduk-balāṭu
King of Babylon
Stone tablet (type of kudurru), of the time of Itti-Marduk-balāṭu recording sale of arable land.[i 1]
Reignc. 1135–1138 BC[a]
PredecessorMarduk-kabit-aḫḫēšu
SuccessorNinurta-nādin-šumi
House2nd Dynasty of Isin

Itti-Marduk-balāṭu, inscribed mKI-dAMAR.UTU-DIN[b] “with Marduk (there is) life,” c. 1135–1128 BC, was the 2nd king of the 2nd Dynasty of Isin that ruled over Babylon, and he was the son of its founder, Marduk-kabit-aḫḫēšu. He is thought to be the first of the dynasty actually to rule from the city of Babylon.[2]


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  1. ^ Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (2018). A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75. Pondicherry: Wiley. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-1405188999.
  2. ^ D. J. Wiseman (1975). "XXXI: Assyria and Babylonia, c. 1200-1000 BC". In I. E. S. Edwards (ed.). Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 2, Part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region, c. 1380-1000 BC. Cambridge University Press. p. 448.


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