Kudur-Enlil , 26th King of the Kassites

• Preferred Name: Kudur-Enlil , 26th King of the Kassites^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: rendered in cuneiform as "Ku-dur dEN.LÍL," meaning "son of Enlil"
  
• Gender: M
  
• Ruling+House:+Kassite: with note: Wikiwand: Kudur-Enlil
  
• FSID: G7MH-4PS
  
• Death: 1246 BC in Dūr-Kurigalzu, Babylonia at LATI: N2.54 LONG: E4.42
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 26th king of the 3rd or Kassite dynasty of Babylon (Predecessor: Kadašman-Enlil II; Successor: Šagarakti-Šuriaš)BET 1254 BC AND 1246 BC with note: Wikiwand: Kudur-Enlil
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Kudur-Enlil was the 26th king of the 3rd or Kassite dynasty of Babylon. He reigned into his ninth year, as attested in contemporary economic tablets. His relationship with his predecessor and successor is uncertain and does not appear in contemporary inscriptions. The personal name "Marduk is king of the gods" first appears during his reign marking the deity’s ascendancy to the head of the pantheon.
  
  He succeeded Kadašman-Enlil II and was possibly the first Kassite king to have a wholly Babylonian name, or one containing an Elamite-derived word from kudurru, which might be middle Assyrian. Although the "Babylonian King List A" records him as son of Kadašman-Enlil, it is a late source and no contemporary inscriptions exist that support this contention. It has been suggested that he may in fact have been the brother of Kadašman-Enlil, as his predecessor ascended the throne as a child and ruled perhaps nine years.
  
  A "daughter of Babylon" was married into the Hittite royal family, possibly to Tudhaliya IV, a younger son of Ḫattušili III, who went on to succeed him. This would have been a daughter or sister of Kudur-Enlil and the news elicited contempt from Ramesses II, King of Egypt, who apparently no longer regarded Babylon significant. Pudu-Ḫepa, the Hittite queen, replied in a letter, "If you say 'the king of Babylon is not a Great King,' then you do not know the status of Babylon."
  
  Nippur experienced explosive growth under Kudur-Enlil and his successor, with the city expanding almost to its Ur III extent. Kudur-Enlil extensively refurbished the Enlil Temple in Nippur, with its baked-brick bench or "socle" lining the base of all except the northeast outer walls. The later period of construction is witnessed by his stamped brick inscriptions that describe him as a benefactor of the temple. A brick of Kudur-Enlil bearing a twelve-line Sumerian inscription that was found inside the temple states that he built the supporting wall with bitumen and baked bricks. It was customary for the king to travel to Nippur at the "beginning of the year" for the Akitu spring festival and there is an example of a record of the "return of the crown prince" in the third year of Kudur-Enlil.
  
  His name appears on various votive and civic monument inscriptions, as well as on numerous economic texts, such as a legal text about the escape and capture of a slave and a note of payment for mat-makers. The extent to which the number of texts extant reflects the degree of economic activity is disputed, possibly more due to fortuitous discovery of archives; however, more than 270 have been recovered, 70 recently published from an archive from Dūr-Enlilē that was dated for a reign of only nine years.
  
  Excavations at `Aqar-Qūf, ancient Dūr-Kurigalzu, revealed in level II inscriptions of the time of Kudur-Enlil and the later king Kaštiliašu IV, showed that this city continued to be occupied by Kassite kings long after its foundation by Kurigalzu I. There are one or two administrative records among a cache of 64 from the palace dated to him. A private archive from Babylon of seven clay tablets in a pot includes legal texts dated to his reign. A Kudurru stone, found at Larsa, recorded a land grant and tax exemptions, or "zakûtu."
  
  -- Wikiwand: Kudur-Enlil
  
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1. Šagarakti-Šuriaš , 27th King of the Kassites, b. 1280 BC     d. 1244 BC

1. Title: Wikiwand: Kudur-Enlil
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   Note: Kudur-Enlil, rendered in cuneiform as "Ku-dur dEN.LÍL" (c. 1254–1246 BC short chronology), "son of Enlil,"was the 26th king of the 3rd or Kassite dynasty of Babylon. He reigned into his ninth year, as attested in contemporary economic tablets. His relationship with his predecessor and successor is uncertain and does not appear in contemporary inscriptions. The personal name “Marduk is king of the gods” first appears during his reign marking the deity’s ascendancy to the head of the pantheon. Biography He succeeded Kadašman-Enlil II and was possibly the first Kassite king to have a wholly Babylonian name, or one containing an Elamite derived word, from kudurru, which might be middle Assyrian. Although the Babylonian King List A records him as son of Kadašman-Enlil, it is a late source and no contemporary inscriptions exist which support this contention. It has been suggested that he may in fact have been the brother of Kadašman-Enlil, as his predecessor ascended the throne as a child and ruled perhaps nine years. A "daughter of Babylon" was married into the Hittite royal family, possibly to Tudhaliya IV, a younger son of Ḫattušili III who went on to succeed him. This would have been a daughter or sister of Kudur-Enlil and the news elicited contempt from Ramesses II, king of Egypt, who apparently no longer regarded Babylon significant. Pudu-Ḫepa, the Hittite queen, replied in a letter, "If you say 'the king of Babylon is not a Great King,' then you do not know the status of Babylon." Nippur renaissance Nippur experienced explosive growth under Kudur-Enlil and his successor, with the city expanding almost to its Ur III extent. Kudur-Enlil extensively refurbished the Enlil Temple in Nippur, with its baked-brick bench or socle lining the base of all except the northeast outer walls. The later period of construction is witnessed by his stamped brick inscriptions which describe him as a benefactor of the temple. A brick of Kudur-Enlil bearing a twelve-line Sumerian inscription which was found inside the temple states that he built the supporting wall with bitumen and baked bricks. It was customary for the king to travel to Nippur at the "beginning of the year" for the Akitu spring festival and there is an example of a record of the "return of the crown prince" in the third year of Kudur-Enlil. His name appears on various votive and civic monument inscriptions, as well as on numerous economic texts, such as a legal text about the escape and capture of a slave and a note of payment for mat-makers. The extent to which the number of texts extant reflects the degree of economic activity is disputed, possibly more due to fortuitous discovery of archives, however, more than 270 have been recovered, 70 recently published from an archive from Dūr-Enlilē, dated for a reign of only nine years. Other Babylonian centers Excavations at `Aqar-Qūf, ancient Dūr-Kurigalzu revealed in level II inscriptions of the time of Kudur-Enlil and the later king Kaštiliašu IV, showing that this city continued to be occupied by Kassite kings long after its foundation by Kurigalzu I. There are one or two administrative records amongst a cache of 64 from the palace dated to him. A private archive from Babylon of seven clay tablets in a pot includes legal texts dated to his reign. A Kudurru stone, found at Larsa, recorded a land grant and tax exemptions, or "zakûtu." Inscriptions 1. ^ "Babylonian King List A," BM 33332, ii 5: a broken and badly worn tablet in the British Museum, also errs with respect to the length of his reign, 6 years rather than 9 proven by economic texts, after Brinkman MSKH I p. 430. 2. ^ KUB 21.38: letter from Pudu-Ḫepa. 3. ^ Stamped bricks IM 56097 and IM 61767 in the National Museum of Iraq and more than forty others. 4. ^ 5 NT 700, now in the Iraq Museum. 5. ^ Tablets BM 17626 and BM 17710. 6. ^ Kudurru L. 7076 land grant and tax exemptions.