Sealand Dynasty Rules Babylon

Name: Sealand Dynasty Rules Babylon
Start: -1025
End: -1005

Type Event Region Mesopotamia Time c. -1025–-1005

Around the eleventh century BCE, the so-called 'Second Dynasty of the Sealand' took power in southern Babylonia, ruling southern Mesopotamia for over…

Timeline

c. -1069–-1025Babylonia · BabyloniaAfter the fall of the Kassite dynasty, Babylonia fell into fragmentation among city-states, and a new ruling family emerged in the southern gulf and marsh regions, marking the beginning of the Second Dynasty of the Sealand according to the Babylonian King List.
c. -1025–-1000Southern Babylonia · BabyloniaSealand monarchs controlled the southern cities, maintaining the temple economy and traditional scribal system, while keeping a tense coexistence with Elam and Assyrian forces to the north, providing a framework for local order in Babylonia after the Dark Age.

Sources

The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. II Part 2: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380–1000 BC — I. E. S. Edwards et al. (1975)
Babylonian Chronology 626 B.C.–A.D. 75 — Richard A. Parker and Waldo H. Dubberstein (1956)