Editing Kassites (section)

==Kassite dynasty==
{{Main|Kassite dynasty}}
The Babylonian and Assyrian king lists mention eight or nine [[early Kassite rulers]] whose names are not fully known and who precede the following kings.<ref>Chen, Fei (2020). Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 978-9004430914.</ref><ref>Astour, Michael C. "The Name of the Ninth Kassite Ruler". ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' vol. 106, no. 2, 1986, pp. 327–331</ref> Another Kassite king, Hašmar-galšu, is known from five inscriptions from the Nippur area.<ref>Horowitz, W., Reeves, S., Stillman, L., White, M., & Zilberg, P. (2015). "Cuneiform Texts in The Otago Museum: A preliminary report". ''Buried History'', 51, 57–60</ref><ref>MacGinnis, J. (2015). Ira Spar, Michael Jursa: "Cuneiform Texts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium BC". ''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie'' 105(2), 255–257.</ref>

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! Ruler !! !!Reign<br><small>([[Chronology of the ancient Near East#Variant Middle Bronze Age chronologies|short chronology]])</small> !! Comments
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| [[Agum-Kakrime]] ||[[File:Agum Kakrime Inscription.jpg|30px]] || || Returns [[Marduk]] statue to [[Babylon]]
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| [[Burnaburiash I]] || || c. 1500 BC || Treaty with [[Puzur-Ashur III]] of [[Assyria]]
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| [[Kashtiliash III]] || || || Son of Burnaburiash I, Grandson of Agum-Kakrime
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| [[Ulamburiash]] || || c. 1480 BC || Conquers the first [[Sealand Dynasty]] 
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| [[Agum III]] || || c. 1470 BC || Possible campaigns against "The Sealand" and "in Dilmun" 
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| [[Karaindash]] || || c. 1410 BC || Treaty with [[Ashur-bel-nisheshu]] of Assyria
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| [[Kadashman-harbe I]] || || c. 1400 BC || Campaign against the [[Suteans]]
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| [[Kurigalzu I]] ||[[File:Bead with cuneiform inscription_of Kurigalzu I or II MET DP364276.jpg|30px]] || c. x–1375 BC || Founder of [[Dur-Kurigalzu]] and contemporary of [[Thutmose IV]]
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| [[Kadashman-Enlil I]] ||[[File:Kassite - Cylinder Seal - Walters 42619.jpg|30px]] ||style="white-space:nowrap;"| c. 1374–1360 BC  || Contemporary of [[Amenophis III]] of the [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] [[Amarna letters]]
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| [[Burnaburiash II]] || [[File:Image from page 29 of "Ancient seals of the Near East" (1940).jpg|30px]]|| c. 1359–1333 BC || Contemporary of [[Akhenaten]] and [[Ashur-uballit I]]
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| [[Kara-hardash]] || || c. 1333 BC || Grandson of [[Ashur-uballit I]] of Assyria
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| [[Nazi-Bugash]] || || c. 1333 BC || Usurper "[[son of a nobody]]"
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| [[Kurigalzu II]] || [[File:Cylinder seal of king Kurigalzu II Louvre Museum AOD 105.jpg|30px]]|| c. 1332–1308 BC || Son of Burnaburiash II, [[Battle of Sugagi]] with [[Enlil-nirari]] of Assyria
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| [[Nazi-Maruttash]] ||[[File:Votive inscription Louvre AO7704.jpg|30px]] || c. 1307–1282 BC || Contemporary of [[Adad-nirari I]] of Assyria
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| [[Kadashman-Turgu]] || || c. 1281–1264 BC  || Contemporary of [[Hattusili III]] of the [[Hittites]]
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| [[Kadashman-Enlil II]] ||[[File:A letter from Hattusili III to Kadasman-Enlil II, 13th century BC, from Hattusa, Istanbul Archaeological Museum.jpg|30px]] || c. 1263–1255 BC || Contemporary of [[Hattusili III]] of the [[Hittites]]
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| [[Kudur-Enlil]] || || c. 1254–1246 BC || Time of [[Nippur]] renaissance
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| [[Shagarakti-Shuriash]] || || c. 1245–1233 BC || "Non-son of Kudur-Enlil" according to [[Tukulti-Ninurta I]] of Assyria
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| [[Kashtiliashu IV]] ||[[File:Tablet of Akaptaḫa.jpg|30px]] || c. 1232–1225 BC || Deposed by [[Tukulti-Ninurta I]] of Assyria
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| [[Enlil-nadin-shumi]] || || c. 1224 BC || Deposed by Elamite king Kidin-Hutran III
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| [[Kadashman-Harbe II]] || || c. 1223 BC || 
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| [[Adad-shuma-iddina]] || || c. 1222–1217 BC || Son of Kashtiliashu IV
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| [[Adad-shuma-usur]] ||[[File:ABL 924.jpg|30px]] || c. 1216–1187 BC || Sender of [[Adad-shuma-usur#Letter to Aššur-nirari III|rude letter]] to [[Ashur-nirari III|Aššur-nirari]] and [[Ilī-padâ|Ilī-ḫaddâ]], the kings of Assyria
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| [[Meli-Shipak II]] || [[File:Kudurru Melishipak Louvre Sb23 n02.jpg|30px]]|| c. 1186–1172 BC || Correspondence with [[Ninurta-apal-Ekur]]
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| [[Marduk-apla-iddina I]] ||[[File:Kudurru Louvre Sb31.jpg|30px]] || c. 1171–1159 BC || Son of Meli-Shipak II
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| [[Zababa-shuma-iddin]] || || c. 1158 BC || Defeated by [[Shutruk-Nahhunte]] of [[Elam]]
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| [[Enlil-nadin-ahi]] || [[File:Enlil-nadin-ahe kudurru.jpg|30px]]|| {{Circa|1157}}–1155 BC || Defeated by Kutir-Nahhunte II of Elam
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Note that the relative order of Kadashman-Turgu and Kadashman-Enlil II have been questioned.<ref>Donbaz, Veysel. "A Middle Babylonian Legal Document Raising Problems in Kassite Chronology". "'Journal of Near Eastern Studies'' vol. 41, no. 3, 1982, pp. 207–212</ref>