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Bāba-aḫa-iddina, typically inscribed mdBA.Ú-PAB-AŠ Synchronistic Kinglist fragment, Ass. 13956dh, KAV 182, iii 14 and Ass. 14616c, iii 22 (restored). 'Bau has given me a brother', ca. 812 BC, was the 9th king of the Dynasty of E, a mixed dynasty of kings of Babylon, but probably for less than a year. He briefly succeeded Marduk-balāssu-iqbi, who had been deposed by the , a fate he was to share.
His reign was brought to its end by the sixth campaign of the Assyrian king, Shamshi-Adad V, as described in his Annals:Ashur Stele, AfO 9, p. 100, iv 15–29. "In Ni... I besieged him. By means of boring and siege machines Iaptured that city. Bāba-aḫa-iddina together with the standard (d urigallu)... I took away." A more detailed account of the events following this victory is provided in the Synchronistic History:
Šamši-Adad made no attempt to annex Babylonia which remained independent, though kingless for a period, but returned to Assyria where he spent his last year, according to the eponym record, "in the land." Finkel and Reade proposed a restoration of the final, broken part of the Synchronistic History to give: "Adad-nirari III king of Assyria and Baba-aḫa-iddina, bowed and drank wine. The welfare..." They suggested that a pro-Babylonian Shammuramat, while acting as Assyrian regent for the boy-king Adad-nirari, may have moved to have Bāba-aḫa-iddina reinstated to stabilize their southern neighbor.
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