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The fifty names of Marduk sound familirias, oh fifty shades of grey and it's about sex and power. "The Marduk Prophecy is a vaticinium ex eventu text describing the travels of the Marduk cult statue from Babylon. It relates his visit to the land of Ḫatti, corresponding to the statue's seizure during the sack of the city by Mursilis I in 1531 BC, Assyria, and when Tukulti-Ninurta I overthrew Kashtiliash IV, taking the image to Assur and Elam in 1225 BC. Kudur-nahhunte then ransacked the city and pilfered the statue around 1160 BC. The first two journeus are described in glowing terms as good for both Babylon and the other places Marduk has graciously agreed to visit. The episode in Elam, however, is a disaster, where the gods have followed Marduk and abandoned Babylon to famine and pestilence. Marduk prophesies that he will return once more to Babylon to a messianic new king, who will bring salvation to the city and who will wreak a terrible revenge on the Elamites. This king is understood to be Nabu-kudurri-uṣur I, 1125-1103 BC. Thereafter the text lists various sacrifices. A copy was discovered in The House of Exorcist in the city of Assur and was written between 713-612 BC. It is closely related thematically to another vaticinium ex eventu text called the Shulgi (Shulgi wrote a long royal hymn to glorify himself and his actions, in which he refers to himself as "the king of the four quarters, the pastor of the black-headed people". Sumer: The original Black civilization of Iraq) prophecy, which probably followed it in a sequence of tablets. Both compositions present a favorable view of Assyria."