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==Economic activity==
Twenty-three tablets<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brinkman |first=J. A. |last2=Kennedy |first2=D. A. |date=Jan–Apr 1983 |title=Documentary Evidence for the Economic Base of Early Neo-Babylonian Society: A Survey of Dated Babylonian Economic Texts, 721-626 B.C. |journal=Journal of Cuneiform Studies |volume=35 |issue=1/2 |pages=63–65 |doi=10.2307/3515942 |jstor=3515942 |s2cid=163438050}} lists 22 and AFn.2</ref> survive dealing with agricultural production, animal husbandry, weaving and sales from his first to his fourteenth year<ref name=reallexikon/> and these seem to represent a recovery in economic activity.<ref name=prelude/>{{rp|40}} A letter archive excavated in 1973 in Nippur contains the correspondence between Kudurru the ''[[šandabakku]]'', or governor, of [[Nippur]] and an individual of this name who is greeted as "brother", which may be him.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cole |first=S. W. |title=Nippur in late Assyrian Times, c. 755–612 BC (SAAS 4) |publisher=Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project |year=1996 |pages=52, 84–85, 89–90}}</ref>

He is recorded as having succumbed to illness and died in his palace during the fourteenth year of his reign.<ref group=i name=chronicle/>{{rp|11}} He was succeeded by his son, [[Nabu-nadin-zeri|Nabû-nādin-zēri]], the only known hereditary succession in Babylonia in a period from 810 BC to the rise of the [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]] in 626 BC.<ref name=prelude/>{{rp|16}}