CLCV 2906 Lecture 9: ANE topic 9 notes
30 Nov 2016
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1595 bc c. 1110 bc initially less territorially coherent than hatti, assyria and elam. By c. 1400 bc coalesce into powerful kingdoms: part of their strength is high degree of collaboration among each other. By c. 1100 bc all three are weak and isolated kingdoms. Image 3: anakara museum storm god flanked by chariot and cavaryman. Hittite sack of babylon, 1595 bc, destroyed the empire of hammurabi. Kassites occupy babylon after its sack and set up their own administration. Image 4: britmus 35603 babylonian king list a. Place of kassite rule (1595 bc 1155 bc) made secure by babylonian king list a. Longest ruling dynasty throughout all of ane for all of antiquity = 440 years. King list a puts beginning of kassites at 1731 bc: would thus have overthrown samsu-iluna, son of hammurabi. By stretching kassite rule to 1731 bc 1595 bc, king list a filled what would otherwise be a gap of 136 years.
