Tags: Monarch.
Marduk-apla-iddina I contemporarily written in cuneiform as dAMAR.UTU-IBILA-SUM-na and meaning in Akkadian: Marduk has given an heir was the 34th Kassite king of Babylon ca. 1171–1159 BC (short chronology). He was the son and successor of Melišipak from whom he had previously received lands as recorded on a kudurru and he reigned for 13 years during a time when the dark ages cast a heavy cloud over the contemporary events.
