Kadashman-Enlil II

Kadašman - Enlil II (also Kadashman - Enlil II, Kadashman - Ellil, dEN.LÍL ), son of Kadašman - Turgu, was from 1263 to 1255 BC, a king of Babylonia from the Kassite ( Kassu ) dynasty.

Dating

The reign of this king is in the Babylonian King List poorly preserved. Lehmann-Haupt suggested 14 years, Rowton holds a reading of 15 or 16 is more likely. A cuneiform tablet from Ur ( U 6 48), which probably refers to Kadašman - Enlil II, however, calls the 14th and 15th year of King.

Government

Kadašman - Enlil was still a minor, so that the res Sarri Marduk - balatu temporarily led the regency with his father's death Kadašman - Turgu.

The young king also enjoyed the support of Hattusili III. of Hatti, with which his father had signed a similar agreement. Kadašman - Enlil, however, did not respond to the letters of his royal brother, under the pretext that the connecting paths between the two empires along the Euphrates were threatened by the predatory Ahlamu ( Aramaic? ). Hattusili assumed here the evil influence of the Grand Vizier Marduk - balatu, the Cassin, because of his name, holds a native Babylonians. In a letter to the king of Hatti Kadašman - Enlil calls for the delivery of robbers, the Babylonian citizens were murdered on a trade mission to Amurru and Ugarit, and the punishment of a certain Banti - SINNI ( Bentešina ), a Amuru ruler, who in Babylonian The area was invaded. Whether these solicitations were successful, is not known.

From other letters is recorded that the king was a great lover of hunting. He seems to have Babylon heavily upgraded, anyway Hattusili noticed that it is " more horses than straw " give in Babylon.