Kara-indaš

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Kara-indaš was a Kassite king who lived around 1430 BC. Ruled in Babylon . He is the first Kassite ruler known from contemporary sources. According to synchronistic history, he is a contemporary of Aššur-bel-nišešu (1417–1409) of Assyria . According to Chronicle P , Kara-indaš is the father of Kadašman-Ḫarbe I , but there seems to be a mix-up here. An agate seal confirms an Izkur-Marduk, son of Kara-indaš.

title

Kara-indaš is the first Kassite ruler to call himself Šàr Ka-ru-du-ni-ia-aš , king of Babylonia (Agum or Šàr mat Pa-da-an u Al-ma-an, king of the lands Padan and Alman ). Karduniaš, the wall of Duriaš , first referred to a region in southern Mesopotamia, along the border with Elam, and later becomes the name of all of Babylonia. He also bears the title of šarru Kaššū , Kassite king, šar mat Bābil and šar Šumer ù Akkad .

history

According to the Amarna letter EA10 from Burna-buriaš II to Amenophis IV. Friendship between Egypt and Babylonia had existed since the time of Kara-indaš.

buildings

Part of the facade from the Inanna Temple in Uruk (Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin).

Little is known of Kara-indaš, but he built a small Inanna temple in Uruk, the facade of which was decorated with niches. Mountain and water deities stand in these niches. The facade is made of fired bricks pressed into shape. The temple is the earliest known Kassite temple. The technique of pressing bricks and then firing them is also documented here for the first time. The bricks bear a Sumerian building inscription by Kara-Indash.

Part of the facade of the temple is in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, other parts of the facade were in the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad , but were stolen during the looting of the museum after the American occupation of Baghdad during the second Gulf War and have since disappeared.

literature

  • John Oates: Babylon , Bergisch Gladbach 1983, ISBN 3-8112-0727-X , pp. 107-108.
  • JA Brinkman: Materials and studies for Kassite history , Vol. 1, A catalog of cuneiform sources pertaining to specific monarchs of the Kassite dynasty. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1976, pp. 169-172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert T. Olmstead : Kashshites, Assyrians, and the balance of power. In: American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures 36, 1920, 123.
  2. ↑ Albrecht Goetze : The Kassites and near Eastern Chronology. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 18/4, 1964, 97
  3. ↑ Albrecht Goetze: The Kassites and near Eastern Chronology. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 18/4, 1964, 98.
  4. ↑ The stolen part of the facade of the Inanna temple in Uruk ( Memento from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
predecessor Office successor
Agum III. King of Babylon
around 1430 BC Chr. 		Kadašman Ḫarbe I.
personal data
SURNAME Kara-indaš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Babylon
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 15th century BC Chr.