Kadašman-Buriaš
Kadašman-Buriaš, meaning “my trust is in the (Kassite storm-god) Buriaš,” was the governor of the Babylonian province of Dūr-Kurigalzu possibly late in the reign of Marduk-šāpik-zēri, who ruled ca. 1082–1069 BC. He was reportedly captured and deported during a campaign conducted by the Assyrian king Aššur-bel-kala during 1070 B.C.{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Volume 5: Ia - Kizzuwatna | chapter = Kadašman-Buriaš | author = J. A. Brinkman |editor1=Erich Ebeling |editor2=Bruno Meissner | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1999 | pages = 284–285 }}
Biography
Although he bore a Kassite name, which features on a Kassite-Babylonian name list,5 R 4 IV 9. his father was Itti-Marduk-balāṭu, inscribed KI-˹dAMAR˺.[UTU]-˹TI˺.LA, an individual with a rather common Babylonian moniker. The only current extant source attesting to him is the “Broken Obelisk”The Broken Obelisk BM 118898, iii 4–7. which is usually attributed to Aššur-bel-kala,{{ cite book | title = The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 2, Part 2 | chapter = Assyria and Babylonia, c. 1200–1000 BC | author = D. J. Wiseman |editor1=I. E. S. Edwards |editor2=C. J. Gadd |editor3=N. G. L. Hammond |editor4=S. Solberger | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1975 | page = 467 }} which describes his campaign during the eponym year of Aššur-rā’im-nišēšu, thought to be in his fourth year. It recalls: “In the same year (ina šattimma šiāti), in the month Šebat, the chariots and … went from Inner City (of Assur) and conquered the cities …-indišulu and …-sandu, cities which are in the district Dūr-Kurigalzu.”{{ cite book | title = Assyrian royal inscriptions, Volume 2 | author = A. K. Grayson | publisher = O. Harrassowitz | year = 1976 | page = 53 }} No. 238.
Adad-apla-iddina, as the king who was subsequently installed by Aššur-bel-kala, also has his father given as Itti-Marduk-balāṭu in the Eclectic Chronicle,The Eclectic Chronicle (ABC 24) tablet, BM 27859, lines 8 to 11. leaving the intriguing possibility that he was a brother of the former governor.{{ cite book | title = A political history of post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C. (AnOr 43) | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Pontificium Institutum Biblicum | year = 1968 | page = 143 }} Some of the late 19th and early 20th century scholarly works erroneously give Kadašman-Buriaš as the name of the Kassite king Kadašman-Enlil II.