marratu

Updated: May 14, 2025

In the south the Tigris and Euphrates made their way to the region of salt-marshes, called Marratu in the inscriptions, Merathaim by the prophet Jeremiah. They were inhabited by the Semitic tribe of the Kaldâ, whose princes owned an unwilling obedience to the Babylonian kings.

A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce - Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations