KIDEN-HUTRAN

KIDEN-HUTRAN
(reigned C. 1235–1210? B.C.)
   Elamite king who launched two invasions into Babylonia, which at that time was ruled by local puppet kings appointed by the Assyrian monarch Tukulti-Ninurta I. In the first attack, Kiden-Hutran conquered Nippur and the city of Der. Several years later he took Isin and Marad.

Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia. . 2012.

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  • NIPPUR — (modern NIFFAR, some 150 kilometers southeast of Baghdad)    It was first excavated by Henry Austen Layard in 1851, then by the University of Pennsylvania (1888–1900), and subsequently, from 1948 on, by the Oriental Institute, Chicago (since 1952 …   Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia

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