Kashshu-nadin-ahi
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| name = Kaššu-nādin-aḫi
| title = King of Babylon
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| reign = {{circa}} 1003–1001 BC
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| predecessor = Ea-mukin-zēri
| successor = Eulmaš-šākin-šumi
Bῑt-Bazi Dynasty
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| royal house = 2nd Sealand Dynasty
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Kaššu-nādin-aḫi or -aḫḫē, mBI(=kaš)-šú-u-MU-ŠEŠ,Babylonian King List A, BM 33332, iii 8. “(the) Kassite (god) gives (a) brother(s),” was the 3rd and final king of the 2nd Sealand Dynasty of Babylon, {{Circa}} 1003–1001 BC. His brief three-year reign was marked by distressed times. There was a famine so severe that it caused the suspension of the regular food and drink offerings at the Ebabbar, or white house, temple of Šamaš in Sippar.{{ cite book | title = Babylonian boundary-stones and memorial tablets in the British Museum | author = L. W. King | location = London | publisher = British Museum | year = 1912 | page = 122 }} no. XXXVI.The Sun God Tablet, BM 91000 i 24–28.
Biography
The Kassite derived theophoric element (dKaššû = “the Kassite (god)”) in his name is the only, rather tenuous, reference to the earlier dynasty,{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Meek - Mythologie | author = Bruno Meissner | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 1999 | page = 8 }} and may not be indicative of any actual affiliation so much as emulation of their longevity and presumed legitimacy. He was the son of a certain SAPpaia, who is otherwise unknown.Dynastic Chronicle (ABC 18), v 7. The Synchronistic King ListSynchronistic King List iii 4 and Synchronistic KL Fragment (KAV 182 iii 1 (restored)). records his Assyrian contemporary as Aššur-nāsir-apli, {{Circa}} 1050 to 1031 BC, but this is unlikely. The period of his reign falls midway through that of Aššur-rabi II, {{Circa}} 1013 to 972 BC.
Although the Dynastic Chronicle records he was interred in a palace, its name is not preserved. There are currently no other inscriptions extant attesting to his rule,{{ cite book | title = Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles | author = A. K. Grayson | publisher = J. J. Augustin | year = 1975 | page = 222 }} apart from the passing mention of his woes on the Sun God Tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina{{ cite journal | title = A Preliminary Catalogue of Written Sources for a Political History of Babylonia: 1160-722 B.C. | author = J. A. Brinkman | journal = Journal of Cuneiform Studies | volume = 16 | issue = 4 | year = 1962 | jstor = 1359098 | page = 92 }} no. 14. and a single inscription on a Lorestān bronze spear head.{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Ia – Kizzuwatna (Volume 5) | chapter = Kaššû-nādin-aḫḫē | author = J. A. Brinkman | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 1999 | page = 474 }}
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