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 | | Nevertheless, the Kassites were a political force to be reckoned with for Kassite kings were in correspondence with Egyptian Pharaohs (ca1375-ca1333), possibly at a time when rival Kassite lords had settled their differences. | | | The Kassite language is barely known from some words that appear in the inscriptions and Kassite rule in Babylon is generally obscure, although it lasted on and off for four centuries, during which time Aramaeans, from Syria, gradually infiltrated Mesopotamia, where they were known as Kaldu or Chaldeans. | | | Assyria became independent and adopted an aggressive foreign policy whose main objective was to conquer Babylon and its Kassite rulers. |
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| | This also denied the kills to the Kassites who had Elamite and Sumerian kills on their menu of tasks. | | | The Kassites held onto Babylon just long enough to pave the way for a smooth transition of control of Babylon being handed over to the Chaldeans (with Nebecanezzar). | | | However on the final attack by the mighty Assyrian forces, the Kassites held on to Babylon with truely heroic dierolls, turning back th Assyrian hoards. |
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http://grognard.com/reviews1/chariot.txt
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| | The Ancient Kassites of the Zagros Mountain Region |
| | The Assyrian invasion and brief occupation of Babylonia in 1225 BC marked the beginning of the Kassite decline. | | | Best seen from the Egyptian point of view in the Amarna archives of the mid-14th century this diplomatic world pitted Egypt, Babylon, Hatti, [Hurrian] Mitannia and Assyria in an imperial struggle for client states in Syro-Palestine. | | | These developments reflect tendencies which correspond to the wider collapse of the Late Bronze Age world order and to the movements of tribal people into Mesopotamia..... |
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http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Kassites.html
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| | The original homeland of the Kassites is obscure, but appears to have been located in the Zagros Mountains. | | | Apparently, Kassite has no connection with Indo-European, as had erroneously been supposed. | | | Babylon under Kassite rulers re-emerged as a political and military power in the Near East. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/kassites
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| | This would explain the apparent dearth, again, of Hammurabic archaeology in Babylon [6500]: "Due to extensive later rebuilding and the recent rise of the water table, the city of Babylon is virtually unknown archaeologically for this period, and only a handful of tablets from it have survived". | | | Firstly, we are told, he had fled from Burnaburiash, the Kassite King of Babylon - also an EA correspondent. | | | This would not have been a good time for Abi-eshuh to have been a king of Babylon, caught between powerful feuding Kassites. |
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http://www.specialtyinterests.net/el_amarnas_mesopotamians.html
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| | KASSITES: 8 foot and 4 chariots (Mari, Tigris, Akkad, Babylon, or Karduniash). | | | The Elamites under Shutruk-Nahunte captured Babylon and destroyed the Kassites. | | | The Hittite Kingdom collapsed around 1200 under attacks from Sea Peoples and Phrygians. |
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http://grognard.com/variants1/chariotlords.doc
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| | Ethics of Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites by Sanderson Beck |
| | Babylon was invaded and captured by the Hittite king Mursilis in about 1650 BC, but he soon left Babylon and returned to Hattusas. | | | Amenhotep III and Akhenaten married Kassite princesses as well, sending gold and gifts to Babylon. | | | An epic glorified the Assyrian conquest of Babylon and blamed the war on Kashtiliash for breaking an agreement, but on an inscription found in Assur Tukulti-Ninurta frankly declared, "I forced Kashtiliash, King of Kar-Duniash, to give battle."15 (Kar-Duniash is the Kassite term for Babylon.) |
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http://www.san.beck.org/EC3-Sumer.html
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| | The Old Babylonian period |
| | After the Hittite invasion under Mursilis I, who is said to have dethroned the last king of Babylon, Samsuditana, in 1595, the Kassites assumed the royal power in Babylonia. | | | For almost 1,000 years this epic was recited during the New Year's festival in the spring as part of the Marduk cult in Babylon. | | | The remaining Semitic states, such as the state of Ashur, became minor states within the sphere of influence of the new states of the Kassites and the Hurrians/Mitanni. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/nt/Gilgamesh/oldbabyl.html
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| | Kassites / Cossaeans |
| | This would have been everything, but the Kassites, which seem to have been semi-autonomous in the Achaemenid Empire, unexpectedly return in our sources in the first weeks of the year 323, when the Macedonian king Alexander sets out from Ecbatana to Babylon, and on his way encounters, defeats, and destroys the so-called Cossaeans. | | | Once they had become "babylonized" and had learned how to organize an army, they took Babylon. | | | In the seventeenth century BCE, the Kassites started to infiltrate Mesopotamia, which was ruled by the successors of the famous king Hammurabi of Babylon (1792-1750?). |
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http://www.livius.org/k/kassites/kassites.html
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| | A General History of the Near East, Chapter 2 |
| | The Kassites appear to have been the most peaceful rulers Babylon had in its long history. | | | The Anatolian raid on Babylon left a power vacuum, and when the Anatolians left, Hammurabi's city went to the Kassites by default. | | | Details of how they took over are not available; it appears that the Kassite ruler of the day, Agum II, simply stepped in and claimed the Babylonian throne when it became vacant. |
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http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/neareast/ne02.html
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| | But they didn't control the center of Mesopotamia, the city of Babylon, for very long before another Indo-European people, the Kassites, roared in and dominated a large part of Mesopotamia. | | | By 1200, all the great Indo-European kingdoms, that great human experiment in transforming Mesopotamia into an Indo-European culture, have been weakened by the incessant troubles of war and invasion, and the Assyrians, a Semitic people angered by Indo-European domination, would return the area to Semitic control. | | | History has been unkind to the Kassites, a people who come onto the stage of history in the one of the most chaotic periods in the Middle East. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/KASSITES.HTM
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| | Assyrians - History for Kids! |
| | A Dark Age overtook West Asia about this time, with the invasions of the Sea Peoples and a lot of movement among the Hittites, the Hurrians, and the Jews, and the gradual collapse of the Kassites as a result. | | | But when the Hurrian kingdom collapsed about 1360 BC, the Assyrian governor of Assur, whose name was Assur-uballit, saw his chance and began calling himself the King of Assyria. | | | But people objected to this sacrilege, and the conquest of Babylon, and a mob led by his son burned Tukulti-Ninurta to death by setting fire to his palace, and freed the Kassites again. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/assyrians.htm
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| | 4.5. VEDIC ARYANS IN WEST ASIA |
| | According to Babylonian sources, the Kassites came from the swampy area in what is now southern Iraq: unlike the Iranians, who migrated from India through Afghanistan, the Kassites must have come by sea from Sindh to southern Mesopotamia. | | | The Kassite and Mitanni peoples were definitely considered as foreign invaders. | | | If the earlier Kassite and the later Mitanni people were indeed part of the same migration, their sudden appearance falls neatly into place if we connect them with the migration wave caused by the dessiccation of the Saraswati area in ca. |
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http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ch45.htm
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| | A BABYLONIAN PERSPECTIVE ON SENNACHERIB AND HIS GRAND VIZIER |
| | The Kassite period is thought to have been brought to its end by the Elamites in the mid-C12th BC. | | | We saw in a previous discussion of Assyrian history that Tiglath-pileser I stands out amidst a most poorly documented age of so-called 'Middle Assyrian' history that James has called a 'Dark Age'. | | | The form Kaldu for the land of the Chaldeans is thought to have been first used by Ashurnasirpal in the mid-9th BC. |
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http://www.specialtyinterests.net/the_grand_vizier.html
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| | Secrets of Sumer |
| | Sumer, Sumeria, Sumerian, Annunaki, Nephilim, Nephillim, Angels, UFOs, Aliens, Bible, Babylon, Babylonians, Semites, Akkadians, Assyrians, Kassites, Egyptians, Hittites, Chaldeans, Persians, Persia, Amorites, Mythology, Biblical, Pantheon, Pantheons, Mythologies, Prophecy, Zecharia Sitchin, Erich von Daniken, Michael Heiser, Patrick Heron |
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http://www.artapprentice.net/sumer/sumeriantexts.html
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| | History of Iran: Iranologie.com |
| | Kassites first entered written history in the Babylonian records when they attacked Babylon in a campaign from 2080-2043 BCE under the rule of their first king, Gandash. | | | This area seems to have been inhabited by the same people who were settled in eastern Anatolia, proto-Hattians, and Hurrians of later Urartu kingdom. | | | This put an end to the Old Elamite kingdom which was ruled successively by Kassites, Babylonians, Hittites, and again by Kassites for another 400 years. |
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| | Babylonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Kassites renamed Babylon "Kar-Duniash", and their rule lasted for 576 years. | | | He was overthrown following the sack of Babylon in 1595 BC by the Hittite king Mursili I, and Babylonia was turned over to the Kassites (Kossaeans) from the mountains of Iran, with whom Samsu-Iluna had already come into conflict in his 6th year. | | | However, Babylon continued to be the capital of the kingdom and the 'holy' city of western Asia, where the priests were all-powerful, and the only place where the right to inheritance of the old Babylonian empire could be conferred. |
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| | The Human Tribes: The Kassites |
| | Completing their outfit they wear long coats of wool with a leathern collar similarly decorated like their vests against the cold when camping outside to guard the herds or on the battlefield. | | | Tiara Ueweniel, the "Evenstar", has been raised by Kassites their way. | | | The Kassites believe that it would destroy the bonds of comradeship and bring bad luck upon the soldiers of these squad. |
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| | Civilization III: Civ of the Week |
| | The Kassites held Babylon for four centuries, then lost it to the Assyrians, who promptly lost it back to the Kassites, who then succumbed to Elamite raiders. | | | After Hammurabi's death, his son took over the family business, but he wasn't quite as capable as his dad, and the Kassites started attacking the city, weakening it enough to allow it to be captured centuries later. | | | Historical records show the first mentions of the city of Babylon as early as the 23rd century B.C. For centuries, it had been an insignificant suburb of the Sumerian capital of Ur until around 1792 B.C., when Hammurabi came to power. |
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| | Lemas |
| | 3226 YEARS AGO: The Kassite rulers no longer would allow the exodus of people from the city; several laws were put into affect, the most severe being that an individual must serve the monarchy in some manner for a period of fifteen years before being considered a citizen. | | | With foreign allies in the west (Nusand), cospirators in Lemas plot the overthrow of the Kassite rulers. | | | Citizens would be granted freedom to leave the city. |
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http://questforgloryproject.8m.com/lemas.html
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| | Chronology |
| | The Kassites occupied Babylon and began their 577 years of domination. | | | Mannaeans united to form a kingdom from present day Maragheh to parts of Iranian Kurdestan. | | | Ebcin, the last king of the third dynasty of Ur, was carried as captive to Elam following his defeat by the Elamites. |
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| | After his death came invasions by the Hittites and then by the Kassites, who formed the Kingdom of Assyria about 1350 BC. | | | The Kassites originally had their capital at Ashur, but they moved it in 720 BC to Nineveh, or Mosul. | | | Their king, Hammurabi, made Babylon a famous city, though he is best known for his code of laws. |
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| | ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE BIBLE |
| | But the short-lived Kassite empire had been lost to history by the time of the addition of verse 1 to Numbers 12 by the priestly commentators who also organized the Table of Nations. | | | Like the Semites, they were a Caucasian people, but they spoke an Indo-European language not a Semitic one. | | | Through their rediscovery in the last century by archaeologists, we now are relatively confident that the term actually referred to the Kassites, who originally occupied the lands of modern Khazi-stan east of the lower Tigris. |
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| | Collapse of Babylonia and Aftermass |
| | Under the new government, cultures were kept and Babylon once again became important. | | | Soon in 1595 BC, a small group known as the Kassites moved into and ended up controlling Babylon. | | | However after winning over Babylonia, the Hittites became homesick and left the Babylonia region in administrative chaos, being controlled from one reign to another. |
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - BABYLONIA. |
| | The development of the kingdom which Hammurabi had founded was continued during the second dynasty of Babylon, at the end of which (about 1780 | | | The Kassites had come originally from the mountains of Elam; and they furnished to Babylonia some kings eminent as warriors and in the arts of peace. | | | B.C.) a foreign dynasty known as the Kassites came to the throne. |
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| | ANE History: Babylonia |
| | When Babylon rebelled, Sennacherib destroyed it nearly completely; but then his successor Esarhaddon restored it to prosperity. | | | At long last the Kassites were expelled, but disorder continued in Babylonia for another four hundred years under a series of obscure rulers with long names that you don't want to know, until the rising power of Assyria in the north stretched down and brought Babylonia under the power of the Ninevite kings. | | | Eight years after Hamurrappi's death, the Kassites, a mountain tribe to the north of Babylonia invaded the land, plundered it, retreated, and raided it again and again. |
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| | Nippur of votive offerings of magnesite, which must have been brought for | | | the Kassite kings from the island of Euboea (Nippur, ibid.). | | | The Kassite regime was not, however, without its influence upon |
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| | The Chaldean Dynasty of Babylon, 625BC to 539BC |
| | c1160 BC: fall of Kassites [job96] Elamites rule Babylon | | | c1570-1300 BC: Kassites rule Babylon [cite] respect local religion, language [job86] uninspired dark age? | | | c1360 BC: Amarna correspondence of Kassite kings Kadashman-Enlil I and Burnaburiash II [sample] [more] Kassite horses are praised, Akhnaten marries Burnaburiash's daughter, trade with Greece [job91] |
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| | Assyria Part Three |
| | Kassite Conquest Of Babylonia And The Appearance Of Assyria. | | | independent of a king who claimed authority over the land of the Kassites | | | Kassites in Babylonia, a name subsequently extended over all the land. |
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| | Kassites |
| | It is assumed that the Kassite society was a feudal one. | | | This becomes the end of the Kassite dynasty. | | | At the beginning of their Mesopotamian presence, the Kassites established Dar Kurizgalu as their capital, about 150 km north of Babylon. |
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http://lexicorient.com/e.o/kassites.htm
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| | Hyksos - Midianites - Kassites |
| | of nomadic and warlike shepherd peoples (the Kassites, Kaska, Amorites, Aramaeans, Midianites, Syrians, Palestinians) who | | | KASSites (=Hebrew KASDIM) or KASKA, enemies of the | | | he period of Kassite (Amorite) rule is a dark age in the fertile crescent, during which the Amorite language became dominant in Syria and Palestine - and is retained down to this day as Arabic. |
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http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi49.htm
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| | The Human Tribes: Korweynites |
| | With the fall of the first empire the place became abandoned and the Korweynites joined their only left allies, the Kassites on the plains and settled in the area of Kormendale which became the new capital as they rose to new power. | | | After the war they founded their capital on a mountain saddle which was one of the few only passable routes through the Sohon Mountains. | | | The Korweynites were a nation of farmers and herders in ancient times and began early to found cities as protection against a dangerous environment. |
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| | Bronze sword |
| | Many Kassites were employed as agricultural workers but there are also references in documents to Kassite armies and their leaders. | | | With the collapse of strong centralized control of southern Mesopotamia around 1500 BC, a line of Kassite kings established themselves in the city of Babylon. | | | This sword may date to their reign, or to that of their successors when political power shifted to a dynasty originating in the city of Isin. |
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| | By Tyler H |
| | By Tyler H. The Kassites were brought into focus at one of the most chaotic periods of history. | | | At this time Mesopotamia was ruled by the Hittites, a successful group people also displaced by the Indo-European people. | | | However we do know that they were at this time they were the center of Mesopotamia both militarily and commercially. |
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| | The Kassites put importance on the trade to the nations around it and extended their empire north and west to modern Bahrain and created good relations with the Egyptian Empire. | | | The Kassites actually entered Babylonia around 1600BC peacefully but by about 1595 they had taken military control with the help of the Hittites. | | | The Kassites major accomplishment towards civilization was their preservation and translation of early text from Akkadian and Sumerian and spread their culture though Mesopotamia. |
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| | The Babylonians were defeated by the Kassites in 1460 BC and in 1150 BC the Elamites defeated the Kassites. | | | They fought a number of wars with the states of Babylonia and were occasionally conquered. |
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| | Halsall Home |
| | Kassite Rule in Babylon c.1600-1200 BCE [At Crystal Links][Modern Summary] |
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| | AllRefer.com - Kassites (Ancient History, Middle East) - Encyclopedia |
| | Kassites or Cassites[both: kas´Its] Pronunciation Key, ancient people, probably of Indo-European origin. | | | AllRefer.com - Kassites (Ancient History, Middle East) - Encyclopedia | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Ancient History, Middle East > Kassites |
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| | The Centaurs |
| | The centaur has been suggested to have originated in Babylonia during the late 2nd millennuim B.C. It is thought the Kassites, a barbarian culture that migrated from Iran or further east to the Fertile Crescent around 1750 B.C., may have been responsible for creating the myth of the centaur. | | | The Kassites, who fought with Egypt and Assyria for Near East supremacy, set up stones to mark the boundries of their lands. | | | Figures of gods or guardian spirits were carved upon the stones, and some of these were half-man and half-horse beings. |
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| | Dynamist Blog: FISKING THE KASSITES |
| | They are the ones who believe we know exactly what human beings should be. | | | They use "utopian" the way some people use "nihilist"--inaccurately, and as a way to link their opponents to the 20th century's totalitarian butchers. | | | If you want to uphold the idea that the world has been going downhill since Machiavelli, and that modernity has added nothing important to the wisdom of the ancients, it helps to leave out the tradition that created Anglo-American freedom, prosperity, and longevity. |
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| | King Sennacherib's Prism |
| | The people of the land of the Kassites and the land of the Yasubigallai, who had fled before my arms, I brought down out of the mountains and settled them in Hardishpi and Bit-Kubatti. | | | In my second campaign, Assur, my lord, encouraged me, and against the land of the Kassites and the land of the Yasubigallai, who from of old had not been submissive to the kings, my ancestors, I marched. | | | Into the hand of my official, the governor of Arapha, I placed them. |
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| | Agargoaf, Iraq |
| | The city's great ziggurat, built by the Kassites during the rule of King Kurigalzo II (1344-1324 BC), though partially ruined, commands the view with its 57 m height over the surrounding plain. | | | Water came to Agargoaf from a large river branched out of the Euphrates called by the Babylonian "Bitty Inlil" - the canal of the god Inlil, one of the greatest in the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon. | | | Only the lower level has survived, reinforced by an outer brick wall, with parts of the inner mud-brick core still protruding high above it. |
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| | ArtLex on Mesopotamian art |
| | All of these powers passed this land to the Arabs who reside in Mesopotamia today. | | | times, this region passed through a succession of historical periods, involving numerous groups, among whom were the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Amorites, Kassites, Elamites, Hammurabi, Mitanni, Chaldeans, Aramaeans, Persians, | | | Mesopotamia, taken from Babylonia to Susa, Kassite period (1202-1188 BCE), |
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