Bel-ibni
Bēl-ibni was a
Sennacherib, believing that direct Assyrian rule was too costly, appointed Bēl-ibni, a young Babylonian nobleman, belonging to the Rab-bani family, raised at the Assyrian court, King of Babylon in 703 BC.[2]
The experiment with a native puppet king was hardly more successful than direct Assyrian control. Soon Bēl-ibni was conspiring with the Chaldeans and Elamites against the Assyrians.Ashur-nadin-shumi.[4]
References
- ^ Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles, By Albert Kirk Grayson
- ISBN 978-1-57506-049-1.
- ISBN 978-0-415-25314-7.
- ^ Jean-Jacques Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles, Atlanta, 2004, p. 197.
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