Kadašman-Enlil I.

Kadašman-Enlil I was a king of Babylon from the Kassite ( Kaššu ) dynasty, who lived between 1374-1360 BC. BC or 1377-1361 BC Ruled. He was the son of Kuri-galzu I. He carried the title "King of the whole" ( šar kissati ), which indicates the claim to supremacy in Mesopotamia .

His sister was with Amenhotep III. (1390–1353) married. As the Amarna letters show, she did not occupy a high position at the Egyptian court. Kadašman-Enlil complains that none of his ambassadors saw her at court, which indicates that the Pharaoh had banished her to the harem as an insignificant concubine . Regardless of this, Amenophis also desired a daughter of Kadašman-Enlil as a wife, which he finally got. His wish to marry an Egyptian princess, however, was unequivocally rejected: "In the past, an Egyptian princess was never given to anyone ." The ruler, on the other hand, was more generous with his gold, but it was often of poor purity: "... after one after it had melted, little was left, ”laments the ruler of Babylon.

After Kadašman-Enlil, his son Burna-buriaš II came to power.

literature

• Elena Cassin : Babylonia under the Kassites and the Middle Assyrian Empire (Fischer Weltgeschichte; Vol. 3; Ancient Orient; Vol. 2). Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1993, ISBN 3-596-60003-0 .
• Betina Faist : The long-distance trade of the Assyrian Empire between the 14th and 11th centuries BC (Old Orient and Old Testament; Vol. 265). Ugarit Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-927120-79-0 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1998).
• Albertine Hagenbuchner: The correspondence of the Hittites, Vol. 2: The letters with transcription, translation and commentary . Winter, Heidelberg 1989, pp. 281-300, ISBN 3-533-04210-3 (also dissertation, University 1987).

predecessor	Office	successor
Kuri-galzu I.	King of Babylon	Burna-buriaš II.