Uballissu-Marduk

[1] Uballissu-Marduk, inscribed ú-ba-lí-su-dAMAR.UTU, meaning “Marduk has kept him alive,” was a Babylonian accountant (niğkas) who rose to the rank of administrator (sanqu) in the Kassite government of Kurigalzu II, ca.

1332-1308 BC short chronology, whose principal sources are his two cylinder seals which detail his religious affiliations and his illustrious genealogy.

It provides a prayer to the goddess Ninsun and gives his position as “expert accountant.” His other cylinder seal,[i 2] lists four generations of his ancestors of which Arad-Ea “scholar of accounting” (Sumerian: ummia niğkas) is the first.

There seems to have been a rift in the family, with his cousin, Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, moving to Aššur to take up an appointment as royal scribe to the Assyrian king, Aššūr-uballiṭ (ca.

[1] Uballissu-Marduk’s descendants were recorded in the genealogy of Marduk-zâkir-šumi, the bēl pīḫati, “person responsible” or provincial governor, who was the beneficiary of a royal gift of corn-land on a kudurru[i 5] in the time of Marduk-apla-iddina I, ca.