Kadashman-harbe I
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Kadašman-Ḫarbe I was the sixteenth Kassite
King of Babylon
, and the kingdom contemporarily known as Kar-Duniaš, during the early fourteenth century, BCE.
, but he was certainly father to the better known King, Kurigalzu I
, who succeeded him, as attested by his son in his autobiographical inscription, of which there are two copies, one a hexagonal prism (BM 108982) and the other a cylinder (NBC 2503).
Two baked-clay cones report Kadašman-Enlil’s
honoring a land deed made by Kurigalzu son of Kadašman-Ḫarbe. A legal text, dating perhaps to the reign of Nazi-Maruttaš
, refers to him as the father of Kurigalzu.
It has been suggested that the Babylonian work “King of all Habitations”, which is commonly referred to as the Epic of the plague-god Erra, is a Kassite period piece which includes the description of a raid on Uruk
by the Sutû and the subsequent cries for vengeance upon them. The epic consists of five tablets comprising some 750 lines and reached its final form with the Assyrians in the eighth century but includes older elements.
a date “the year [in which] Kadašman-Ḫarbe, the king, dug the canal of Diniktum” is attested. Diniktum has tentatively been identified as Tell Muhammad. Kadašman-Ḫarbe’s reign has been identified as the point when literary activity resumed at Nippur after three centuries of silence.
Kassites
The Kassites were an ancient Near Eastern people who gained control of Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire after ca. 1531 BC to ca. 1155 BC...
King of Babylon
Babylon
Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...
, and the kingdom contemporarily known as Kar-Duniaš, during the early fourteenth century, BCE.
His provenance
His immediate predecessor may have been KaraindašKaraindash
Karaindaš was one of the more prominent rulers of the Kassite dynasty and reigned towards the end of the 15th century, BC. An inscription on a tablet detailing building work calls him “Mighty King, King of Babylonia, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the Kassites, King of Karuduniaš”.Tablet A 3519,...
, but he was certainly father to the better known King, Kurigalzu I
Kurigalzu I
Kurigalzu I , the seventeenth king of the Kassite dynasty that ruled over Babylon, was responsible for one of the most extensive and widespread building programs for which evidence has survived in Babylonia. The autobiography of Kurigalzu is one of the inscriptions which record that he was the son...
, who succeeded him, as attested by his son in his autobiographical inscription, of which there are two copies, one a hexagonal prism (BM 108982) and the other a cylinder (NBC 2503).
Two baked-clay cones report Kadašman-Enlil’s
Kadashman-Enlil I
Kadašman-Enlil ITypically rendered mka-dáš-man-dEN.LÍL in contemporary inscriptions. was a Kassite King of Babylon from ca. 1374 BC to 1360 BC , perhaps the 18th of the dynasty. He is known to have been a contemporary of Amenhotep III of Egypt, with whom he corresponded...
honoring a land deed made by Kurigalzu son of Kadašman-Ḫarbe. A legal text, dating perhaps to the reign of Nazi-Maruttaš
Nazi-Maruttash
Nazi-Maruttaš, Maruttaš protects him, was a Kassite king of Babylon ca. 1307–1282 BC and self-proclaimed šar kiššati, or “King of the World”. He was the twenty third of the dynasty, the son and successor of Kurigalzu II and reigned for twenty six years...
, refers to him as the father of Kurigalzu.
Campaign against the Sutû
The most significant event of his reign appears to have been his aggressive campaign against the Sutû, a nomadic people along the middle Euphrates related to the Arameans, is described in the Chronicle P, in a somewhat garbled passage which superimposes events relating to the accession of Kurigalzu II, four generations later. He claims to have “annihilated their extensive forces", then constructed fortresses in a mountain region called Ḫiḫi, in the Syrian desert as security outposts and “he dug wells and settled people on fertile lands to strengthen the guard”.It has been suggested that the Babylonian work “King of all Habitations”, which is commonly referred to as the Epic of the plague-god Erra, is a Kassite period piece which includes the description of a raid on Uruk
Uruk
Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient dry former channel of the Euphrates River, some 30 km east of modern As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.Uruk gave its name to the Uruk...
by the Sutû and the subsequent cries for vengeance upon them. The epic consists of five tablets comprising some 750 lines and reached its final form with the Assyrians in the eighth century but includes older elements.
The canal of Diniktum
On a tablet which was found at NippurNippur
Nippur was one of the most ancient of all the Sumerian cities. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind," ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone...
a date “the year [in which] Kadašman-Ḫarbe, the king, dug the canal of Diniktum” is attested. Diniktum has tentatively been identified as Tell Muhammad. Kadašman-Ḫarbe’s reign has been identified as the point when literary activity resumed at Nippur after three centuries of silence.