Pinches's line art of the Agum Kakrime Inscription
Reign
c. 1500 BC
Predecessor
? Šipta-Ulzi
Successor
? Burna-Buriyåš I
House
Kassite
Agum II[nb 1] (also known as Agum Kakrime) was possibly a Kassite ruler who may have become the 8th or more likely the 9th king of the third Babylonian dynasty sometime after Babylonia was defeated and sacked by the Hittite king Mursilis I[i 1] in 1595 BC (middle chronology), establishing the Kassite Dynasty which was to last in Babylon until 1155 BC. A later tradition, the Marduk Prophecy,[i 2] gives 24 years after a statue was taken, before it returned of its own accord to Babylon,[1] suggesting a Kassite occupation beginning around 1507 BC.
The only historical source describes him as son of Urzigurumaš,[nb 2] the 6th king of the dynasty, but the Synchronistic King List[i 3] has two lacunae where the 8th and 9th kings precede Burna-Buriaš I, who was the 10th.[1] The 7th position is occupied by a name containing “Ḫarba.”[nb 3] It has been suggested that the 9th position may show traces of the name “Kakrime”, purported to mean Sword of Mercy[2] or Weapon of Thunder.[3]
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^ abJ. A. Brinkman (1976). Materials and Studies for Kassite History, Vol. I (MSKH I). Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. pp. 97–98, 11.
^I. M. Diakonoff (1956). Istorija Midii ot drevnejšich vremen do konca 4 veka do n. ė (The History of Media). Akad. p. 126.
^Michael C. Astour (Apr–Jun 1986). "The Name of the Ninth Kassite Ruler". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 106 (2): 327–331. doi:10.2307/601597.
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