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Nazi-Maruttash in Later Mesopotamian Tradition

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Frazer, Mary·2013·LoGisma editore
DOI 10.5282/ubm/epub.69246
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Nazi-Maruttaš, the twenty-third king of the Kassite dynasty (r.ca.1301-1277 BC), 2 appears in a total of ten literary texts that were copied after his reign.Two of these were probably composed in his lifetime, but the remaining eight seem to have been composed at later dates, from the end of the thirteenth century to the Persian period.This literary footprint, admittedly smaller than that of several other Mesopotamian kings, 3 is striking when compared with those of other Kassite rulers, who, for the most part, fell into oblivion with the end of their dynasty (ca.1500-1155).4 However, 1.This paper was presented at the Advanced Seminar in the Humanities 2012, organized by Prof. L. Milano and Prof. E. Cingano.I would like to express my thanks to Prof. B.R. Foster and Prof. E. Frahm for much critical feedback, and Prof. E. Jiménez for discussing many aspects of this paper with me and sharing his knowledge of several unpublished fragments in the Kuyunjik Collection

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  • Adad-nārārī II's throne name was programmatic, as his namesake not only conquered a large swathe of Ḫanigalbat, but also vanquished the Kassite king Nazi-Maruttaš, a deed celebrated in an Assyrian epic composition and later literary tradition.

    “His throne name (which he himself intriguingly calls an "important name" [šumu kabtu, RIMA.0.99.2 9-10]) was programmatic, 65 as his namesake not only conquered a large swathe of Ḫanigalbat, but also celebratedly vanquished the Kassite king Nazi-Maruttaš, a deed celebrated in both an Assyrian epic composition and elsewhere in later literary tradition (Frazer 2013).”

    From A New Reconstruction of the Reigns of Adad-nārārī II and Tukultī-Ninurta II in Light of Five Unattributed Royal Inscriptions (2023) · cites this paper as Frazer 2013

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Persian period, literary works, Mesopotamian kingship, textual transmission

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