Mushezib-Marduk

Mushezib-Marduk was a king of the X Dynasty of Babylon, who reigned in the period 693 BC. C.-689 a. C.

Before being elected king of Babylon, he was head of the anti-adelah guerrillas. When he acceded to the throne, it bought with gold of all the allies that could reunite against Assyria. In 691 a. C. obtained a great coalition formed by nomads Arameans and Chaldeans, towns of the Zagros, Parsuash, Anzan, Ellipi, and mainly, Elam. This great army clashed with that of Sennacherib near the present Samarra, next to the Tigris. The battle was very hard, with big losses on both sides, and no clear winner.

However, Sennacherib was able to rebuild his forces before his rivals, and in 689 BC. C. attacked again, obtaining a clear victory, in which it seized of Babylon and made prisoner to Mushezib-Marduk. The Babylonians were murdered, deported, or sold into slavery; the statues of the gods, broken or stolen; temples and buildings, devastated. The destructive fury of the Assyrians reached to the very soil, which was thrown to the Euphrates to be lost in the sea. This attitude was a relative novelty, even within the ferocity of the Mesopotamian wars, for until then the Assyrians had distinguished between the secular power of the enemy, and the holy cities and the Babylonian gods, who had numerous worshipers among their own people, and that they were normally respected. Bibliography

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