There are also texts from the
Kassite period, but the bulk is from Assyrian times (but clearly of Babylonian origin).
Babylonia Under the
Kassites; Volume 2: Archaeological Studies
A goat-fish may have grazed on the boundary markers of the
Kassite period, but we have no evidence of celestial recognition or astronomical use of the amphibious goat before 700 B.C., when it appears in the Chaldean mul-Apin tables under a Sumerian name - Suhurmashu, or "carp-goat." If any part of Capricornus were included among the stars on the "path of the Moon" referenced in older texts or on the clay "astrolabe" star catalogs of 1100 B.C., we don't recognize it.
Jaques tentatively suggests restoring the end of her
Kassite lullaby as e[[r.sub.2]-[sa.sub.3]-[sug.sub.2]-[ga.sub.2]] (p.
According to Oshima, Ludlul was a political criticism against the
Kassite kings, who seemed to regard Nippur and Enlil more highly than Babylon and Marduk.
timiras be included among the
Kassite words derived from Indo-Aryan.
Foreigners under Foreign Rulers: The Case of
Kassite Babylonia (2nd Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C.).
The Marduk crown seems even less distinctive: a
Kassite reference to a crown of Marduk described it as bearing salummatu, "shimmering light," as a "tall horned crown of gold and lapis lazuli, ornamented with various precious stones" (53)--but little other description is available.
There is evidence that Nusku was associated with the lamp ([.sup.d]ZALAG, [.sup.d]IZI.GAR, nuru) as early as the
Kassite period (Streck 2001: 632), making Samas and Nusku a natural pair, the gods that illuminated the day and the night.
For two generations the descendants of Kizzuk (a family of
Kassite origin, according to the names of many of its members) contested the claims of others to this territory.
Brinkman, A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158-722 B.C., Analecta Orientalia 43 (Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1968), 303, "Old Babylonian and early
Kassite periods with the meaning 'person responsible'"; 304, "the exact function of the b[e.bar]l p[i.bar]hati in the
Kassite and Post-Kassite periods is unknown."