Subši-mašrâ-Šakkan

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SUBSI-Masra-šakkan (also SUBSI-mešrê-šakkan) was a Kassite dignitaries during the reign of Nazi-Maruttash (about 1307 to 1282 v. Chr.). A ration text from Nippur from the fourth year of Nazimarutaš's reign mentions Šubši-mašrâ-Šakkan, according to a text from Ur from the 16th year of Nazimurutaš's reign he was the "governor of the country" ( lú GAR.KUR).

The Babylonian poetry Ludlul bēl nēmeqi ("I will praise the Lord of Wisdom") names Subši-mašrâ-Šakkan as the author. This describes how innocent numerous afflictions such as illness, paralysis ("my house was my prison, my flesh was like a fetter, my arms were useless", I.97-98,10; "a demon uses my body like a garment." , I.71), shame ("I was in my own excretions") and social exclusion ("my slave insulted me before the meeting, my slave slandered me before the mob", "my friends avoided me") finally, on the threshold of the grave ("my grave was open, my grave goods were ready", II.114) was saved by the grace of Marduk . It ends with a hymn to the city god of Babylon .

The text also names the ruler Nazi Maruttaš (IV, 105). Most of the surviving versions come from the neo-Babylonian period, according to the style of the script.

literature

  • Jerrold S. Cooper: The Conclusion of Ludlul II. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 27, 1975, ISSN  0022-0256 , pp. 248-249.
  • Benjamin R. Foster: Self-Reference of an Akkadian Poet. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society 103, No. 1 = Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East by Members of the American Oriental Society, dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer , 1983, ISSN  0003-0279 , pp. 123-130.
  • Oliver R. Gurney : Šubši-mešrê-Šakkan. In: Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 80, 1986, ISSN  0373-6032 , p. 190.
  • Alan Lenzi, Amar Annus: A Six-Column Babylonian Tablet of Ludlul Bēl Nēmegi and the Reconstruction of Tablet IV. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 70, 2011, pp. 181-205.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan Lenzi, Amar Annus: A Six-Column Babylonian Tablet of Ludlul Bēl Nēmegi and the Reconstruction of Tablet IV. 2011, p. 191.
personal data
SURNAME Subši-mašrâ-Šakkan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šubši-mešrê-šakkan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kassite dignitary
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century BC BC or 13th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 14th century BC BC or 13th century BC Chr.