Kara-Hardaš

Kara-Hardaš (also Kara-Hardasch ; ^m Ka-ra-Ḫar-da-aš, Babylonian verm. Kadašman-Ḫarbe), around 1333 BC BC, was a king of Babylonia . He was the son of the Kassite Burna-buriaš II and of Muballiṯat-Šerua, the daughter of Aššur-uballits . According to Chronicle P, Kara-Hardaš was, however, a son of Kara-Indaš (Kar-Ina-da-aš) and the Muballiṯat-Šerua. Cassin sees Kadašman-Ḫarbe as the son of Kara-indaš , so he would be significantly older than Aššur-uballit I. himself.

Kara-Hardaš led the title LUGAL la šak-na-on , "King without equal". Soon after his accession to the throne, while still a minor, he was the victim of a rebellion, the Babylonians made a certain ^m Na-zi-Bu-ga-aš (or Šu-zi-ga-aš), the "son of a nobody", king, whereupon his grandfather stepped in, expelled the usurper and installed Kurigalzu II ( ^ilu Ku-ri-Gal-zu), another son of Burna-Buriaš (or Kara-Hardaš?) as ruler "on his father's throne".

After the death of Aššur-uballit, however, he turned against Aššur and carried the fight against Enlil-nirari even into Assyrian territory.

Contemporaries of Kara-Hardaš 1327 BC Chr.
Egypt	Assyria	Mittani	Hittites
Tutankhamun (1333-1323 BC)	Aššur-uballit I. (1353-1318)	Šattiwazza (1350-1320)	Šuppiluliuma I. (1355–1323)

literature

• JA Brinkman: Chronologies in Old World Archeology: Archaeological Seminar at Columbia University 1970-1971. Foreign Relations of Babylonia from 1600 to 625 BC: The Documentary Evidence . ( American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 76), pp. 271-281.
• Hugo Radau, Letters to Cassite Kings from the Temple Archives of Nippur .
• Helena Cassin, Babylonia under the Kassites and the Middle Assyrian Empire . In: Fischer Weltgeschichte, Alter Orient II . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt.

Web links

• LETTERS TO CASSITE KINGS pdf (52 kB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Burna-buriaš II.	King of Babylonia 1333 BC Chr.	Nazi Bugaš