Ea-mukin-zÃÂri, inscribed <sup>md</sup>ÃÂ-a-mu-kin-<small>NUMUN</small>, son of Haà ¡mar (<small>DUMU</small>, âÂÂson of,â ḫaà ¡-mar, a Kassite word for âÂÂ(the) falconâÂÂ), was the 2nd king of the 2nd Sealand or 5th Dynasty of Babylon, 1004 BC, but only for 3 months, according to the Dynastic Chronicle, 5 months according to the Kinglist A.
His predecessor was Simbar-à ¡ipak, who ruled 1021âÂÂ1004 BC, and the Dynastic Chronicle records that he âÂÂwas slain with the sword,â before describing Ea-mukin-zÃÂri as âÂÂthe usurper (<small>LUGAL IM.GI</small>).â Another person named Ea-mukin-zÃÂri appears as a witness to a land deed dated to Simbar-à ¡ipakâÂÂs twelfth year, but is probably someone else as it records that he was the son of Belani and was the priest of Eridu. The Synchronistic King List makes him a contemporary of à  amà ¡i-Adad IV of Assyria but possibly for stylistic purposes as he was likely to have been one of the many Babylonian Kings who were contemporary with the later Assyrian King Aà ¡à ¡ur-rabi IIâÂÂs lengthy reign.
The Dynastic Chronicle notes that âÂÂhe was buried in the swamp of Bit-Haà ¡mar,â presumably an ancestral homeland and possibly Darband-i-ḪÃÂn, where the Diyala breaks through the Bazian range, at the northeast boundary of Namri according to Levine or southern Babylonia according to Brinkman, perhaps even Bët-Ḫaà ¡à ¡amur, a town in the vicinity of Nippur according to Beaulieu. The practice of interring Mesopotamian kings in wetlands, âÂÂclose to the abode of Enki,â was a common practice and commented upon by ancient historians such as Strabo and Arrian in his Anabasis Alexandri, quoting Aristobulus of CassandreiaâÂÂs History of Alexander the Great. This describes his inspection of the royal tombs, which were at least partially submerged and surrounded by reeds. Burial in swamps "in the reeds of Enki" (gi-<sup>d</sup>en-ki-ka-ka) were also recorded by Urukinimgina, énsi of Lagash (c. 2380 BCâÂÂ2360 BC short chronology), in his reforms.