Sealand, or Marsh, Kingdom
Years: 1742BCE - 1450BCE
The Kings of the Sealand Dynasty or the 2nd Dynasty of Babylon, very speculatively ca.
1732 - 1460 BCE (short chronology), are an enigmatic series of kings attested to primarily in laconic references in the king lists A and B, and as contemporaries recorded on the Assyrian Synchronistic king list A.117.
The dynasty is named for the province in the far south of Babylonia, a swampy region bereft of large settlements which gradually expands southwards with the silting up of the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The kings bear fanciful pseudo-Sumerian names and hark back to the glory days of the dynasty of Isin.
The third king of the dynasty is even named for the ultimate king of the dynasty of Isin, Damiq-ilišu.
Despite these cultural motifs, the population predominantly bears Akkadian names and writes and speaks in the Akkadian language.
There is circumstantial evidence that their rule extended at least briefly to Babylon itself.
