Kassites

The Kassites or Cassites are people of the Old East, originating according to any probability in the mountains of the Zagros.

They appear in the Babylonian sources in the current of. They threaten the sovereigns of the First Dynasty of Babylon by their raids. After the destruction of the latter by the Hittites in 1595 av. J. - C., one their sovereigns seizes the power in this city. It thus founds the longest dynasty having reigned in this city, which lasts until the catch of Babylon by the Élam ites in 1155 av. J. - C. With Kassites, Babylon will have definitively sat its domination on the south of the Mésopotamie, which is then named Karduniash (“country of Kassites”). The largest kings kassites will have been Burna-Buriash I {{er}}, which seizes the town of Isin, and founds the domination kassite on the country of Sumer in the current of, Kurigalzu (Ier or II), which founds the town of Hard-Kurigalzu (Aqar Quf), Kadashman-Enlil I {{er}} and its son Burna-Buriash II, known apr their correspondence with the Egyptian Pharaons (medium of), and Kashtiliash IV which seriously threatens the Assyrie towards the end of.

Kassites still constitute an important ethnos group with the thousand-year-old 1st, and they are at the time of the adversaries of powerful the Assyrian. Perhaps is even necessary it to see in the “Kassoi” which meet the Greek in the Zagros with the hellenistic time of the descendants of those.

Because it quickly was comparable by the culture mésopotamienne because of numerical weakness of its representatives, the culture kassite is very badly known. It is known that Kassites were organized in tribes, the “houses”, downward of a common ancestor. The language kassite is only known by some technical terms, in particular on the equestrian art in which Kassites were famous, and by some titles of dignitaries of the royal court kassite, primarily of the military functions. The largest god kassite, guard of the dynasty, were Shuqamuna, which had for parèdre Shimaliya. Other gods kassites were Buriash, Harbe, and also of the divinities of Indo-Aryan origin, like Maruttash (the Marut) and Shuriyas (Surya).

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