ABSTRACT
When the Elamite king Kudur-nahhunte removed Enlil-nadin-ahi from the Babylonian throne, he brought to an end the Kassite Dynasty that had ruled Babylonia for approximately four centuries. Following the collapse of the Kassite Dynasty, the Kassites remained a significant presence throughout Babylonia, and kings with Kassite identities would be among those Babylonian rulers who succeeded the kings of the Second Dynasty of Isin in the early first millennium. Nebuchadnezzar I's reign inaugurates a brief period of restoration for Babylonia after the collapse of the Kassite Dynasty. The Šitti-Marduk kudurru was one of the inscriptions that survive from Nebuchadnezzar I's reign that commemorate his victorious campaigns over Elam. The available evidence pertaining to Nebuchadnezzar's foreign relations and domestic activities reveals a dynamic monarch whose successes were all the more remarkable given that they occurred only decades after northern Babylonia had suffered devastation at the hands of the Elamites.
