He ruled during a period of instability due to incursions of Aramean nomadic tribesmen in Northwest Babylonia.

[b] The price was paid in kind, with the text listing various items provided by the purchaser with their cash equivalent, for a total of 420 shekels.

[5] It was witnessed by eleven individuals representing the roll call for the elite in Nippur and the god Ninurta is invoked as patron deity of boundaries.

[6] A stone duck weight[i 3] inscribed Nabû-šuma-libūr, optimistically titled šar kiššati (king of the world),[d] found its way to the Northwest palace of Nimrud, where it was preserved as an antique[7] and rediscovered by Layard in the mid 19th century, and perhaps indicates continued trade.

Ominous portents dated for his reign, are included in a damaged Religious Chronicle of the Seleucid era.