In 709 [actually 721], [Sargon] led the new-year procession as king of Babylon. He married his son, crown-prince Sennacherib to the Aramaic noblewoman Naqi'a and stayed in the south to pacify the Aramaic and Chaldean tribes of the lower Euphrates as well as the Suti-nomads.
Note: Sennacherib could have been as old as 33 at the time of this marriage in 709 [721]. The problem is Sennacherib's annals claim he put his son Assur-nadin-shumi on the Babylonian throne in 700. That he would install a son at the age of eight or less to govern rebellious Babylon is more than suspect. Actually, once we restore 12 missing years to Sennacherib's reign, Assur-nadin-shumi could have been made king at an age of 20 (or less).
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