Kaštiliašu (Ḫana)

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Kaštiliašu / Kaštiliaš was a king of Ḫana on the central Euphrates . He was the successor to Jadi-Abu / Jadih-Abu / Idi-Abu. The name is generally interpreted as Kassite . Podany considers him to be a contemporary of Abi-ēšuḫs of Babylon and sets his rule at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 17th centuries.

Because of the epigraphic finds, G. Colbow considers him a contemporary of Ammī-ditāna or Ammi-ṣaduqa .

Domination

The year names of Kaštiliašu attest to the cult of Adad and contacts with the Suti, as well as a mēšarum edict. In such a mēšarum edict, usually in the first year of the king's reign, the legal bases according to which he wanted to establish his rule were proclaimed. Further mēšarum edicts could be issued in the seventh year of the reign, but also on special occasions. Such edicts and corresponding year names are also known from Sumerian and the old Babylonian king Ammi-ṣaduqa.

His successor, or a king who ruled soon after his reign, was Šunuhru-Ammu .

Surname

The name Kaštiliašu is generally considered Kassitic , Landsberger sees Kaštiliaš / Kaštil-ašu and Agum as "lead names", pairs of names that are inherited from grandfather to first-born grandson.

Various theories try to explain why a king of Hana had a Kassite name:

  1. Kaštiliašu was a Kassite, and Hana was a Kassite ruler in his day. It is also proposed to equate Kaštiliašu with Kaštiliaš I of the Babylonian King List and the Synchronistic King List . From this it is usually assumed that he did not yet rule in Babylon, but merely belonged to the ancestors of the later Kassite kings. Against this thesis speaks that in the area of Terqa otherwise no Kassite settlement could be proven.
  2. Kaštiliašu was not a Kassite and bore his name in honor of a contemporary or older ruler. This is primarily due to come Kaštiliaš I.-IV. in question, of which Kaštiliaš III. and IV. were certainly kings of Babylon. Buccellati thinks Kaštiliašu is an Ammurrite. His next known successor, Šunuhru-Ammu, has a clearly Ammurrian name

literature

  • Alexander Ahrens: The Scarabs from the Ninkarrak Temple Cache at Tell 'Ašara / Terqa (Syria): History, Archaeological Context, and Chronology , In: Egypt and the Levant 20 , 2010, 431-444.
  • Amanda H. Podany: The Land of Ḫana. Kings, chronology and scribal tradition , Bethesda, CDL-Press 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amanda H. Podany: The Land of Ḫana. Kings, chronology and scribal tradition , Bethesda, CDL-Press 2002, 44
  2. ↑ G. Colbow: Some remarkable unrollings from the time of Kaštiliašus von Hana , In: Peter Calmeyer et al. (Ed.): Contributions to ancient oriental archeology and antiquity , Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 1994, 61–66
  3. ^ DJ Wiseman: Law and Order in Old Testament Times , Vox Evangelica 8, 1973, 5-21.
  4. ↑ Israel J. Finkelstein: Some new mešarum material and its implications , In: HG Güterbock, Th Jacobsen. (Ed.): Studies in Honor of Benno Landsberger on his seventy-fifth birthday, April 25, 1965 , University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1965, 233-246
  5. ^ FR Kraus: An edict of the King Ammi-saduga of Babylon , Studia et Documenta 9, Leiden 1958
  6. ↑ Benno Landsberger: Assyrian King List and "Dark Ages" , In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 8/2 , 1954, 61f.
  7. ^ CJ Gadd: Hammurabi and the end of his Dynastie , In: Cambridge Ancient History II / 1 , Cambridge University Press, 225
  8. ^ H. Lewy: Some Problems of Kassite and Assyrian Chronology , In: Mélanges Isidore Levy , Brussels 255
  9. ↑ Amanda H. Podany: The Land of Ḫana. Kings, chronology and scribal tradition , Bethesda, CDL-Press 2002, 46
  10. ^ G. Buccellati: Terqa, an introduction to the site , 1983
  11. ↑ Amanda H. Podany: The Land of Ḫana. Kings, chronology and scribal tradition , Bethesda, CDL-Press 2002, 51
predecessor Office successor
Jadi-Abu Kings of Hana Šunuhru-Ammu
personal data
SURNAME Kaštiliašu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaštiliaš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Ḫana
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 18th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 17th century BC Chr.