Kuri-galzu II.

Kuri-galzu II ruled from 1332 to 1308 BC. BC, referred to in the sources as Kurigalzu ṣicḫru (= the younger or the young), was a king of Babylonia from the Kassite (Kaššu) dynasty. He carried the title "King of the whole" ( Šar kissati ).

The synchronistic story reports of a victory of Enlil- nirari in Sugagi on the Tigris over Kuri-galzu II., In which the latter captured his entire camp.

Kuri-galzu II also waged war against Subartu and Elam under King Ḫurpatila . Possibly it was Kurigalzu II who devastated Elam and took Susa himself. The historical context speaks in favor of assigning corresponding sources to the ancestor of the same name, Kurigalzu I, who led the Kassite-Babylonian empire to a climax and built the new capital Dur Kurigalzu (approx. 1390 BC). A statue from Susa bears the inscription "Kurigalzu, the king of all, who defeated Susa and Elam and destroyed Maraši ." A dedicatory inscription from the Enlil temple in Nippur also reports on the victory over Elam. An agate plate thatDungi was consecrated, the Elamite king Kutir-Nahhunte III. once captured and brought to Susa, where Kuri-galzu captured them and consecrated them to Enlil in Nippur.

Around 150 economic texts and some votive texts, often on small stone objects, have survived from his reign.

literature

• Helena Cassin, Babylonia under the Kassites and the Middle Assyrian Empire. Fischer Weltgeschichte, Alter Orient II (Frankfurt, Fischer Verlag).
• KGII, votive texts, often on small stone objects
• JA Brinkman, Materials and Studies for Kassite History Vol. 1 (Chicago 1976).

predecessor	Office	successor
Nazi Bugaš	King of Babylon 1332-1308 BC Chr.	Nazi Maruttaš