Tags: Monarch.
Marduk-bēl-zēri inscribed in cuneiform as dAMAR.UTU.EN.NUMUN or mdŠID.EN.[x] and meaning “Marduk (is) lord of descendants (lit. seed)” very speculatively ca. 790 – 780 BC was one of the kings of Babylon during the turmoil following the Assyrian invasions of Šamši-Adad V (ca. 824 – 811 BC). He is identified on a Synchronistic King List fragment as Marduk-[bēl]-x which gives his place in the sequence and reigned around the beginning of the 8th century.