He was the son-in-law of Nebuchadrezzar II, whose son and heir, Amel-Marduk, Nergal-sharezer murdered and succeeded.

Berossus writes that he was murdered in a plot orchestrated by Nergal-sharezer, his successor and brother-in-law.

* 556 BC — Labashi-Marduk succeeds Neriglissar as king of Babylon.

* 560 BC — Neriglissar succeeds Amel-Marduk as king of Babylon.

Labashi-Marduk, was king of Babylon ( 556 BC ), and son of Neriglissar.

Neriglissar however reigned for only four years, being succeeded by the youthful Labashi-Marduk in 560 BC.

* Neriglissar ( Nêrigasolassáros ): 559 – 556 BC

Neriglissar succeeded Amel-Marduk.

* ABC 6: Babylonian Chronicle of the Third Year of Neriglissar.

The Hittite kings are held to be ghost doubles of the Neo-Babylonian kings, and Rameses II's battle with the Hittites at Kadesh is identical to Necho's fight against Nebuchadrezzar II at Carchemish, Nabopolassar is Mursili II, Neriglissar is Muwatalli, Labashi-Marduk is Urhi-Teshup, and Nebuchadrezzar II is Hattusili III.

Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.

Lachmo was the Akkadian god of fertility.

By his wife Ninlil or Sud, Enlil was father of the moon god Nanna / Suen ( in Akkadian, Sin ) and of Ninurta ( also called Ningirsu ).

Enki () or Enkil ( Sumerian: ) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

Considered the master shaper of the world, god of wisdom and of all magic, Enki was characterized as the lord of the Abzu ( Apsu in Akkadian ), the freshwater sea or groundwater located within the earth.

For example, the Akkadian sign AN () could be an ideograph for " deity ", an ideogram for the god Anum in particular, a logograph for the Akkadian stem il-" deity ", a logograph for the Akkadian word šamu " sky ", or a syllabogram for either the syllable an or il.

The Greek form of the name Babylon is from the native Akkadian Bāb-ilim, which means " Gate of the god ", which summarizes the religious purpose of the great temple towers ( the ziggurats ) of ancient Sumer ( Biblical Shinar ).

The city's patron deity was Nanna ( in Akkadian Sin ), the Sumerian and Akkadian ( Assyrian-Babylonian ) moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name, being the classical Sumerian spelling of LAK-32. UNUG < sup > KI </ sup >, literally " the abode ( UNUG ) of Nanna ( LAK-32 )".

The Akkadian name, Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, means " O god Nabu, preserve / defend my firstborn son ".

This Tower of Jupiter Belus is believed to refer to the Akkadian god Bel, whose name has been Hellenised by Herodotus to Zeus Belus.

In Babylonia, the month Tammuz was established in honor of the eponymous god Tammuz, who originated as a Sumerian shepherd-god, Dumuzid or Dumuzi, the consort of Inanna and, in his Akkadian form, the parallel consort of Ishtar.

Similarly the Sumerian moon god Nanna became the Akkadian Sîn whilst the Sumerian sun god Utu became the Akkadian Shamash.

The Akkadian god Adad is cognate in name and functions with northwest Semitic god Hadad.

The fire god Gibil ( named Gerra in Akkadian ) is sometimes the son of Ishkur and Shala.

Sippar was the cult site of the sun god ( Sumerian Utu, Akkadian Shamash ) and the home of his temple E-babbara.

Marduk ( Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR. UTU " solar calf "; perhaps from MERI. DUG ; Biblical Hebrew Merodach ; Greek, Mardochaios ) was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi ( 18th century BCE ), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BCE.

The Etruscans coming from northern Anatolia also worshipped Apollo, and it may be that he was originally identical with Mesopotamian Aplu, an Akkadian title meaning " son ", originally given to the plague God Nergal, son of Enlil.

The name Meslamtaeda / Meslamtaea indeed is found as early as the list of gods from Fara while the name Nergal only begins to appear in the Akkadian period.

Amongst the Hurrians and later Hittites Nergal was known as Aplu, a name derived from the Akkadian Apal Enlil, ( Apal being the construct state of Aplu ) meaning " the son of Enlil ".

The city had temples to Nergal ( Babylonian and Akkadian ), Hermes ( Greek ), Atargatis ( Syro-Aramaean ), Allat and Shamiyyah ( Arabian ) and Shamash ( the Mesopotamian sun god ).

The derivation must then have been secondary for the initial ayin to be confused with an aleph ( both represented by vowels in Akkadian ), and the second consonant descended as a / s / ( like in the Aramaic asthr " bright star "), rather than a / sh / as in Hebrew and most commonly in Akkadian.

Unique types of maces known as " Gada " were used extensively in ancient Indian warfare, and the enchanted talking mace Sharur made its first appearance in Sumerian / Akkadian mythology during the epic of Ninurta.

Later on, Amurru became the Assyrian / Akkadian term for the interior of south as well as for northerly Canaan.

Additionally Akkadian is the only Semitic language to use the prepositions ina and ana ( locative, English in / on / with, and dative-locative, for / to, respectively ).

It has also been argued that an / o / phoneme might have existed, a fact that would have been concealed by the Akkadian transliteration which does not distinguish it from / u /.

Mesopotamian religion refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Sumerian and Akkadian ( Assyrian / Babylonian ) peoples living in Mesopotamia ( around the area of modern Iraq ) that dominated the region for a period of 4200 years from the fourth millennium BC to proximately the 3rd century AD.

These people exist today as the modern Assyrians who are wholly Eastern Rite Christian but retain a distinct Mesopotamian language, Neo Aramaic ( which descends from the Aramaic first spoken in Mesopotamia in 1200 BCE and still retains hundreds of Akkadian loan words ) and identity and the naming of children with ancient names such as Ashur, Shamash, Semiramis, Lamassu, Ninus, Lilitu / Lilith, Sargon, Hadad etc.

( This can be seen in the case of a 9th century BC Akkadian / Aramaic bilingual inscription found at Tel Fekheriyeh in 1979 which reads " king " for the Akkadian " governor ".

In Sumerian and Akkadian ( Babylonian and Assyrian ) mythology, The Gallus ( also called gallu demons or gallas gallû ) were great demons / devils of the underworld.

On those tablets Assyrian traders implored the help of the Akkadian king Sargon.

Naram-Sin also recorded the Akkadian conquest of Ebla as well as Armanum and its king.

In later Assyrian and Babylonian texts, the name Akkad, together with Sumer, appears as part of the royal title, as in the Sumerian LUGAL KI. EN. GIR < sup > KI </ sup > URU < sup > KI </ sup > or Akkadian Šar māt Šumeri u Akkadi, translating to " king of Sumer and Akkad ".

Several parallel animal fables in Sumerian and Akkadian are among those that Erich Ebeling introduced to modern Western readers ; there are comparable fables from Egypt's Middle Kingdom, and Hebrew fables such as the " king of trees " in Book of Judges 9: 8-15 and " the thistle and the cedar tree " in II Kings 14: 9.

Hammurabi ( Akkadian from Amorite ʻAmmurāpi, " the kinsman is a healer ", from ʻAmmu, " paternal kinsman ", and Rāpi, " healer "; ( died c. 1750 BC ) was the sixth king of Babylon ( that is, of the First Babylonian Dynasty ) from 1792 BC to 1750 BC middle chronology ( 1728 BC – 1686 BC short chronology ).

Some of the important historical Mesopotamian leaders were Ur-Nammu ( king of Ur ), Sargon ( who established the Akkadian Empire ), Hammurabi ( who established the Old Babylonian state ), Ashur-uballit II and Tiglath-Pileser I ( who established the Assyrian Empires ).

One such event destroyed the first temple of Ishtar which was then rebuilt in 2260 BC by the Akkadian king Manishtusu.

Under his successor Samsu-iluna ( 1749-1712 BC ) the far south of Mesopotamia was lost to a native Akkadian king called Ilum-ma-ili and became The Sealand Dynasty, remaining free of Babylon for the next 272 years, and both the Babylonians and Amorites were driven from Assyria to the north by an Assyrian governor named Puzur-Sin, and after a civil war, a native king named Adasi seized power.

Although Habiru ( a Sumerian ideogram glossed as " brigand " in Akkadian ), and sometimes ( an Akkadian word ) had been reported in Mesopotamia from the reign of the Sumerian king, Shulgi of Ur III, their appearance in Canaan appears to have been due to the arrival of a new state based in Asia Minor to the north of Assyria based upon Maryannu aristocracy of horse drawn charioteers, associated with the Indo-Aryan rulers of the Hurrians, known as Mitanni.

A late ( c 1400 BC ) witness to an old tradition includes a king of Kaneš called Zipani among seventeen local city-kings who rose up against the Akkadian Naram-Sin ( ruled c. 2254-2218 BC ).

Tiglath-Pileser III ( from the Hebraic form of Akkadian: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, " my trust is in the son of Esharra ") was a prominent king of Assyria in the eighth century BC ( ruled 745 – 727 BC )< ref >

Akkadian Semitic names first appear in king lists of these states circa 2800 BCE.

In circa 2300 BCE the Akkadian king Sargon the Great conquered all of Mesopotamia, uniting the Akkadian and Sumerians in the world's first empire, though this Akkadian empire collapsed after two centuries.

He was not referred to with the usual Akkadian term for " king ", šarrum ; that was instead reserved for the city's patron deity Assur, of whom the ruler was the high priest.

Ziusudra being a king from Shuruppak is supported by the Gilgamesh XI tablet ( see below ) making reference to Utnapishtim ( Akkadian translation of the Sumerian name Ziusudra ) with the epithet " man of Shuruppak " at line 23.

Sargon II ( Akkadian Šarru-ukin " he the god made firm the king ", Arabic: ' reigned 722 – 705 BC ) was an Assyrian king.

Tushratta, who styles himself " king of Mitanni " in his Akkadian Amarna letters, refers to his kingdom as Hanigalbat.

He began to transcribe the Old Persian portion of the trilingual inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian ( a later form of Akkadian ) written by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC.

In the Akkadian languages, the " predicative " ( also called the " permansive " or " stative ") is a set of pronominal inflections used to convert noun stems into effective sentences, so that the form šarrāku is a single word more or less equivalent to either of the sentences šarrum anāku " I am king " or šarratum anāku " I am queen ".