Kidin-Ḫutran III.

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Kidin-Ḫutran III. (Also Kidin-Ḫutrudiš , this reading is documented in the Akkadian written sources, Kidin-Ḫutran is the reconstruction of the Elamite reading ) was an Elamite king of the Igiḫalkid dynasty (around 1400–1210 BC) and possibly its last ruler.

Kidin-Ḫutran III. is best known from the Babylonian Chronicle P (named after the Assyriologist Theophilus Pinches), which is now in the British Museum (inv. number BM 92701) and according to which he was at the end of the 13th century BC. Was active. However, its identity is controversial in research. Because of the dating of his active period, he shouldn't be with Kidin-Ḫutran II.be identical, which is to be applied earlier. In more recent publications, however, it is assumed that both persons are identical. Potts sees Kidin-Ḫutran II and Kidin-Ḫutran III in a publication published in 2015. as a single person. In the first edition of the same book he discusses three rulers with this name. Emrique Quintana mentions Kidin-Ḫutran III in an article on the rulers of this period. as a ghost .

According to Chronicle P, Kidin-Ḫutran destroyed the city of Der am Tigris and thus also destroyed Edimgalkallamma, the main temple of the city. Thereupon he moved to Babylonia , conquered Nippur , deported some of the inhabitants and finally managed to defeat the Kassite king Enlil-nādin-šumi . A few years later, according to the Babylonian Chronicle, he defeated the Kassite king Adad-šuma-iddina and attacked the cities of Marad and Isin .

The end of the reign of Kidin-Ḫutran III. is not recorded. The motivation and the background to his campaigns remain a mystery, especially with regard to the good relations between Elam and Babylonia among the king's predecessors. Perhaps the deposition of the Babylonian ruler Kaštiliaš IV by the Assyrian Tukulti-Ninurta I gave an occasion to invade the neighboring region. The following Babylonian kings were only vassals of the Assyrians under Tukulti-Ninurta I. It seems strange that he did not intervene in the fighting, which in turn may indicate that the Assyrian ruler was struggling with domestic political difficulties. In fact, he was murdered shortly afterwards.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theo. G. Pinches: The Babylonian Chronicle . In: The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , (Oct., 1894), pp. 807-833, especially 822-827
  2. ↑ z. BDT Potts: The Archeology of Elam. Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State . 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 9781316148501 , 223
  3. ^ DT Potts: The Archeology of Elam. Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-56358-5 , p. 231
  4. ↑ Emrique Quintana: Filiacion y accesso al trono en Elam (2n Mitad II milenico AC) In: Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archaeologie orientale 104 (2010), 58 (speaks completely against this ruler)
  5. ^ Potts: The Archeology of Elam (1999), p. 231
  6. ^ F. Vallat: ELAM i. The history of Elam , on: Encyclopaedia Iranica , VIII / 3, pp. 301-313, online , article from 2011.
  7. ^ Potts: The Archeology of Elam (1999), p. 231
predecessor Office successor
Napiriša-untaš King of Elam
Igiḫalkiden 		unsure
personal data
SURNAME Kidin-Ḫutran III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kidin-Ḫutrudiš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Elam
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 13th century BC Chr.