Agum III.
Agum III. was a Kassite king of Babylonia . He was the son of Kaštiliaš III. and succeeded his uncle Ulam-Buriaš to the throne.
According to the chronicles of the early kings , he moved against the sea country and seized Dur-Enlil , where he destroyed the Egalgašešna, the temple of Enlil . From Qal'at al-Bahrain in Bahrain there is a cuneiform tablet which is dated to the 4th year of Agum's reign. Most researchers assume that it is Agum III. acts. A Kassite governor of Dilmun is already known from the reign of Burna-buriaš II . André-Salvini is convinced that the governor's palace burned down at the time of Ili-ippašra . The administration may have been moved to Failaka .
literature
- Pierre Lombard: The Occupation of Dilmun by the Kassites of Mesopotamia. In: P. Lombard (Ed.): Bahrain: The Civilization of the Two Seas. From Dilmun to Tylos. Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris 1999, p. 124.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beatrice André-Salvini, Pierre Lombard: La découverte épigraphique de Qal'at al-Bahreïn: un jalon pour la chronologie de la phase Dilmoun moyen dans le Golfe arabe. In: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. Volume 27, 1997, p. 167
- ↑ Daniel T. Potts: Elamites and Kassites in the Persian Gulf. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . Volume 65/2, 2006, p. 116
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| SURNAME | Agum III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kassite king of Babylonia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 15th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 15th century BC Chr. |