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Encyclopedia Britannica



KASSITES

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 694 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KASSITES , an Elamite tribe who played an important part in the history of Babylonia. They still inhabited the north-western mountains of Elam, immediately
south
  of Holwan, when
Sennacherib
  attacked them in 702 B.C. They are the Kossaeans of
Ptolemy
 , who divides Susiana between them and the Elymaeans; according to Strabo (xi. 13, 3, 6) they were the neighbours of the Medes. Th. Nbldeke (Gott. G. G., 1874, pp. 173 seq.) has shown that they are the Kissians of the older Greek authors who are identified with the Susians by Aeschylus (Choeph. 424, Pers. 17, 120) and Herodotus (v. 49, 52). We already hear of them as attacking Babylonia in the gth year of Samsu-iluna the son of Khammurabi, and about 178o B.C. they overran Babylonia and founded a dynasty there which lasted for 576 years and nine months. In the course of centuries, however, they were absorbed into the Babylonian population; the kings adopted Semitic names and married into the royal family of Assyria. Like the other languages of the non-Semitic tribes of Elam that of the Kassites was agglutinative; a vocabulary of it has been handed down in a cuneiform tablet, as well as a
list
  of Kassite names with their Semitic equivalents. It has no connexion with Indo-European, as has erroneously been supposed. Some of the Kassite deities were introduced into the Babylonian pantheon, and the Kassite tribe of Khabira seems to have settled in the Babylonian plain.
See Fr. Delitzsch, Die Sprache der Kosser (1884). (A. H. S.)
and better known for the defence maintained by Bryennius against Alexis I. in 1084. A Byzantine
wall
  with round towers runs across the peninsula.


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