Kuri-galzu I.

Kuri-galzu I. (also: Kurigalzu I. ), son of Kadaschman-Harbe , was a king of Babylonia from the Kassite (Kaššu) dynasty, who lived around 1390 BC. Ruled.

title

He called himself “King of the whole” ( šar kissati ) and, like the kings of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur , introduced the determinative DINGIR (God) to his name . In a dedicatory inscription to Enlil , the "Lord of the Countries", Kurigalzu calls himself "Good Shepherd"

buildings

In Babylon he dedicated a huge temple to Šumalija and Šuqamuna , the state gods of the Kassite kingdom . He also built temples for Anu and Ištar . In Ur he restored the É-dublamaḫ (House of the Raised Doorstep), a gate where court hearings took place.

Kurigalzu was also considered the founder of Dur-Kurigalzu (around 1400).

government

Kurigalzu maintained good relations with Egypt according to a letter from Burna-Buriāš II (EA 9, 19-36). Then the Canaanites asked him for assistance in a rebellion against Egypt. However, he replied, "If you become hostile to the King of Egypt, my brother, and enter into an alliance with another, shouldn't I go and pillage you?" (EA 9, 26-28).

A relative, possibly his sister, was married to the Elamite king Paḫir-Iššan , whose daughter in turn married the king Humban-numena.

literature

Elena Cassin : Babylonia under the Kassites and the Middle Assyrian Empire. Fischer World History, Ancient Orient II . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt.
Betina Faist : The long-distance trade of the Assyrian Empire between the 14th and 11th centuries BC. AOAT 265, Münster, Ugarit Verlag 2001.
Jan van Dijk: The dynastic marriages between Kassites and Elamers: a disastrous policy . In: Orientalia . Vol. 55, 1986, pp. 159-170.

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Stein, the Central and New Babylonian royal inscriptions up to the end of the Assyrian rule. Mainz 2000, 133
^ BR Foster: Before the Muses. An anthology of Akkadian literature . Bethesda 1993.
↑ Marlies Heinz, Near Eastern Antiquity. Tübingen, Günter Narr 2009, 180
↑ In VAT 17020 line 4f. there is talk of marrying a female relative of Kurigalzu, usually the sister or daughter of Kurigalzu is assumed here, cf. François Vallat: L'hommage de l'élamite Untash-Napirisha au Cassite Burnaburiash . In: Akkakdica . Vol. 114-115, 1999, p. 112.
↑ DT Potts, Elamites and Kassites in the Persian Gulf. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65/2, 2006, 117

predecessor	Office	successor
Kadashman Harbe I.	King of Babylon around 1390 BC Chr.	Kadashman-Enlil I.

personal data
SURNAME	Kuri-galzu I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kurigalzu I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of Babylonia
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	14th century BC Chr.

[1] Peter Stein, the Central and New Babylonian royal inscriptions up to the end of the Assyrian rule. Mainz 2000, 133

[2] BR Foster: Before the Muses. An anthology of Akkadian literature . Bethesda 1993.

[3] Marlies Heinz, Near Eastern Antiquity. Tübingen, Günter Narr 2009, 180

[4] In VAT 17020 line 4f. there is talk of marrying a female relative of Kurigalzu, usually the sister or daughter of Kurigalzu is assumed here, cf. François Vallat: L'hommage de l'élamite Untash-Napirisha au Cassite Burnaburiash . In: Akkakdica . Vol. 114-115, 1999, p. 112.

[5] DT Potts, Elamites and Kassites in the Persian Gulf. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65/2, 2006, 117