Bel-ibni

Bel-ibni ruled from 703 to 700 BC. As the Babylonian king. Sennacherib put him in his second year of reign, after he drove Marduk-apla-iddina II from Babylonia after several military conflicts .

The first official year of the reign of Bel-ibni, which began with the month of Nisannu in the year 702 BC. Began, coincides with the third year of Sennacherib's reign. After Bel-ibni tried in his third year of reign to renounce Sennacherib's supremacy, the Assyrian king sent his army in 700 BC. After Akkad . Bel-ibni lost the battle and was brought to Assyria by Sennacherib and then probably executed.

literature

Dietz-Otto Edzard : History of Mesopotamia. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51664-5 .
Francis Richard Stephenson : Historical Eclipses and Earth's rotation . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-46194-4 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Marduk-apla-iddina II.	King of Babylonia 703–700 BC Chr.	Aššur-nadin-šumi

personal data
SURNAME	Bel-ibni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Babylonian king
DATE OF BIRTH	before 720 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	700 BC Chr.