Bit Jakin

Eridu

Nippur

Susa

Dur Jakin

Larsa

Bit Jakin on the map of Iraq

Bit Jakin was a small Chaldean state on the Persian Gulf and later also included smaller areas of the former sea country that bordered Bit Jakin to the north. The Bit Jakin region consisted of the eight firmly walled cities of Larsa , Kullab , Eridu , Bit Zabidiia , Kissik , Nimid-Laguda , Kur Nabu and the capital Dur Jakin ( seat of government) as well as 100 smaller villages.

Beginning of the eighth century BC The Chaldeans first established the Babylonian kings, but were not titled as Babylonians , but received the note ^Kur Kaldi Bala Bi ( government of Kaldi ) in the dynasty chronicle . Sennacherib referred to Marduk-apla-iddina II as the ruler who reigns in the lowlands of the sea towards sunrise and Schu-Zubu as the one who sits in the middle of the swamp .

Ruler of Bit Jakin

^Ra'su Marduk-apla-uṣur (also King of Babylon around 782 BC)
^Ra'su Erība-Marduk (also King of Babylon around 770 BC)
^Ra'su Marduk-apla-iddina II (King of Babylon 722–710 BC and 702–701 BC)
^Ra'su Shu-Zubu

Notes and individual references

↑ The expression Ra'su means in translation head, leader, supreme lord , cf. on this, Reallexikon Assyriologie p. 292

literature

Dietz Otto Edzard: History of Mesopotamia , CH Beck Munich 2005, ISBN 3-4065-1664-5
Erich Ebeling, Bruno Meissner: Reallexikon der Assyriologie S. 292f.

Web links

Bit Jakin

[1] The expression Ra'su means in translation head, leader, supreme lord , cf. on this, Reallexikon Assyriologie p. 292