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Kadašman-Enlil I, typically rendered m''ka-dáš-man-''dEN.LÍL in contemporary inscriptions (with the archaic masculine determinative preceding his name), was a Kassite King of Babylon from ca. 1374 BC to 1360 BC (short chronology), perhaps the 18th of the dynasty.〔 p. 387 for date translation.〕 He is known to have been a contemporary of Amenhotep III of Egypt, with whom he corresponded (Amarna letters). This places Kadašman-Enlil securely to the first half of the 14th century BC by most standard chronologies. ==Correspondence with Egypt== Five cuneiform tablets are preserved in the Amarna letters corpus. The letters designated EA (for El Amarna) 1 through 5 include three letters authored by Kadašman-Enlil and two by Amenhotep III, who is addressed as and calls himself ''Nibmuareya'', or variants thereof, (from Neb-Maat-Ra). In the first letter from Amenhotep III, EA 1,〔(Tablet EA 1, “The Pharaoh complains to the Babylonian King,” BM 029784 in the British Museum. ) (Transliteration )〕 he writes to assure Kadašman-Enlil that his sister, the daughter of Kurigalzu I, has not in fact died, or that she had been banished to a distant harem as a minor concubine, and to acknowledge the offer of one of Kadašman-Enlil’s daughters, to become, as yet another wife. He suggests Kadašman-Enlil dispatch a ''kamiru'', tentatively translated as ''eunuch'', to identify his sister, rather than the pair of envoys actually sent, on whom Amenhotep casts aspersions, describing one as a donkey-herder. The text is not entirely legible at this point, and the unfortunate envoy may actually be referred to as a caravan leader, and his companion a merchant, thus – these “nobodies” are merely common 'tradesmen' unfamiliar with the members of the royal household and thus unable to recognize Kadašman-Enlil’s sister. In EA 2〔(Tablet EA 2, “Proposals of Marriage,” VAT 00148 + VAT 02706 in the Vorderasiatisches Museum. ) (Transliteration )〕 he declares “my daughters are available (for marriage).” In EA 3,〔(Tablet EA 3, “Marriage, grumblings, a palace-opening,” C. 4743, Cairo Museum. ) (Transliteration )〕 Kadašman-Enlil feigns offence about being overlooked for an invite to the ''isinnu'' festival. Disarmingly, however, he invites his “brother”-(Pharaoh Amenhotep III) to his own inauguration. ‘Now I am going to have a grand opening for the palace. Come yourself to eat and drink with me. I shall not do as you did!” In another of his letters, EA 4,〔(Tablet EA 4, “Royal deceit and threats,” VAT 01657 in the Vorderasiatisches Museum. ) (Transliteration )〕 Kadašman-Enlil complains to Amenhotep III about not being given one of ''his'' daughters as a wife, quoting Amenhotep’s earlier response that “since earliest times no daughter of the king of Egypt has ever been given in marriage (anyone )”,.〔After a French translation by Claire Lalouette, ''Thèbes ou la naissance d’un empire'', Fayard, Paris 1986〕 He urges that if he could not receive a princess, then a beautiful woman should be sent, but immediately follows up by proposing to exchange one of his own daughters for gold, needed to fund a building project he had in mind. In EA 5,〔(Tablet EA 5, “Gifts of Egyptian furniture for the Babylonian palace,” BM 029787 in the British Museum, + Cairo 4744. ) (Transliteration )〕 Amenhotep writes to detail the long list of ''gifts'' that will be provided in exchange for Kadašman-Enlil’s daughter, and the deal is sealed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kadashman-Enlil I」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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