ABSTRACT
The Elamite raids into the heart of Babylonia, including Babylon, had a religious dimension as well: the Sutrukids took with them to Susa the statue of the main Babylonian god Marduk. The region ruled by the First Sealand Dynasty was then exposed to Elamite influence, as no barrier separated Susiana from the Sealand and adjacent regions to its west. During the period under discussion, Elam bordered on a unified Babylonia under the Kassite dynasty, unlike when the preceding period began, under the Kidinuids, when Elam had two different political entities as western neighbours. The glyptic of the later Igihalkids does not resemble that of Kassite Babylonia, in contrast to that of their predecessors which was "pseudo-Kassite" in style. The intimate relations between the Kassite dynasty of Babylonia and Elam under the Kidinuids, Igihalkids and Sutrukids facilitated the adoption of a basic notion of Elamite royal ideology, viz. kitin "divine protection, god-given royal power".
