à  amaà ¡-mudammiq, inscribed <sup>md</sup>à  amaà ¡-<sup>mu</sup>mudammiq (<sup>md</sup><small>UTU-</small>mu<small>-SIG</small><sub>5</sub>), meaning âÂÂà  amaà ¡ shows favor,â was the 4th king of Babylon in a sequence designated as the Dynasty of E and ruled during the latter part of the 10th century BC. He was contemporary with the Assyrian king Adad-NÃÂrÃÂri II with whom he sparred.
Of unknown ancestry, the duration of his reign is equally uncertain. That he followed MÃÂr-bá¿Âti-áḫḫÃÂ-idinna is indicated by the sequence on the Assyrian Synchronistic King List, but Assyrian contact was scanty and this may merely record those rulers who had interacted, omitting those who did not. His rule marks the resumption of contacts characterized as âÂÂbattles, alliances, shifting of borders, and (later) diplomatic marriages that seem to have bound the two countries together.âÂÂ
The Annals of Adad-NÃÂrÃÂri II record that the Assyrian king conducted a campaign against Babylonia during the last decade of the 10th century although the precise chronology is vague, perhaps between 908 and 902 BC. He claims to have defeated à  amaà ¡-muddamiq who âÂÂset up a line of battle at the foot of Mount Yalman,â possibly southeastern Jebel Hamrin, when he attempted to make a stand in the pass and âÂÂhis chariots, and teams of horses, (Adad-NÃÂrÃÂri) took away from him.âÂÂ
The fortresses were on the middle Euphrates, less than 100 miles from Babylon.