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These titles would also be used interchangeably by the later Neo-Babylonian kings. [9] King of Karduniash (šar Karduniaš) [10] – refers to rule of southern Mesopotamia as a whole. [2] 'Karduniash' was the Kassite name for the Babylonian kingdom, and the title 'king of Karduniash' was introduced by the city's third dynasty (the Kassites). [11]
of ascendancy, when Babylonian kings rose to dominate large parts of the Ancient Near East: the First Babylonian Empire (or Old Babylonian Empire, c. 1894/1880–1595 BC) and the Second Babylonian Empire (or Neo-Babylonian Empire, 626–539 BC). Babylon was ruled by Hammurabi, who created the Code of Hammurabi.
The early Kassite rulers are the sequence of eight, or possibly nine, names which appear on the Babylonian and Assyrian King Lists purporting to represent the first or ancestral monarchs of the dynasty that was to become the Kassite or 3rd Dynasty of Babylon which governed for 576 years, 9 months, 36 kings, according to the King List A.
The origins of the First Babylonian dynasty are hard to pinpoint because Babylon itself yields few archaeological materials intact due to a high water table.The evidence that survived throughout the years includes written records such as royal and votive inscriptions, literary texts, and lists of year-names.
Neo-Babylonian kings (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Kings of Babylon" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Ruling title of the Old Babylonian kings. [25] Title employed by some Assyrian kings who ruled over Babylon. [18] Example users: Sargon II, [18] Esarhaddon [26] Kassite king [27] šar Kaššu [27] Title used by the Kassite dynasty of Babylon. [27] Example users: Agum III, [27] Karaindash [27] King of Akkad [28] šar māt Akkadi [28] Literally ...
The Babylonian and Assyrian king lists mention eight or nine early Kassite rulers whose names are not fully known and who precede the following kings. [43] [44] Another Kassite king, Hašmar-galšu, is known from five inscriptions from the Nippur area. [45] [46]
The so-called Ur III Sumerian King List (USKL), on a clay tablet possibly found in Adab, is the only known version of the SKL that predates the Old Babylonian period. The colophon of this text mentions that it was copied during the reign of Shulgi (2084–2037 BC), the second king of the Ur III dynasty.