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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Kaštiliašu III
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = ca. 1500 BC
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| predecessor = [[Burnaburiash I|Burnaburiaš I]]
| successor = [[Agum III]]
| spouse =
| royal house = [[Kassites|Kassite]]
| father =
| mother =
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'''Kaštiliašu III''', inscribed phonetically in [[cuneiform]] as <sup>m</sup>''Kaš-til-ia-šu'', is a possible [[Kassites|Kassite]] king of [[Babylonia]] in the 15th century B.C. ([[Short Chronology]]). He is known only from the Assyrian Synchronistic King List,<ref group=i name=sync>Synchronistic King List, Ass 14616c, KAV 216 [Weidner, AfO 3, line 21’.].</ref> a copy of a monumental inscription,<ref group=i name=moussaieff>Moussaieff no. 254 Kaštiliašu Royal Inscription.</ref> which gives his genealogy, and references in the [[Chronicle of Early Kings]].<ref group=i name=chronicle>Chronicle of Early Kings, BM 96152 (1902-4-12, 264) tablet B, reverse lines 13 and 15.</ref>

==Sources==

Evidence of Kaštiliašu's kingship is somewhat circumstantial. He may be the person indicated on line 21’<ref group=nb>The apostrophe designates a reconstructed line designation.</ref> of the Synchronistic King List<ref group=i name=sync/><ref name=brinkman>{{ cite book | title = Materials for the Study of Kassite History, Vol. I (MSKH I) | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago | year = 1976 | pages = 12, 13 }}</ref> where he is placed opposite Assyrian king [[Ashur-nirari I|Aššur-nārāri I]] and is preceded by a lacuna and superseded by a poorly preserved name which is not thought to be ''[[Ulamburiash|Ulam-Buriaš]]''.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles | author = Albert Kirk Grayson | publisher = J. J. Augustin | year = 1975 | page = 249 }}</ref> Two passages in the [[Chronicle of Early Kings]] mention Kaštiliašu: "Ulam-Buriaš, brother of Kaštiliašu, the Kassite" and "[[Agum III|Agum]], the son of Kaštiliašu".<ref group=i name=chronicle/><ref>{{ cite web | author = Jona Lendering | title = Chronicle of early kings (ABC) | url = http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc20/kings.html | accessdate = July 30, 2011 }}</ref> (Ulam-Buriaš conquered and ruled the Sealand—at the southern end of Babylonia—and perhaps ruled as king of Babylonia; Agum (III) was king of Babylonia.) He has no royal title in those, a feature of this chronicle that is shared by others, such as [[Samsu-Ditana]], who, despite absent monarchical epithets, did prove to be kings.<ref name=brinkman/>

A recently published copy of a monumental inscription<ref group=i name=moussaieff/> celebrates his excavation of the Sumundar Canal and confirms his genealogy, son of [[Burnaburiash I|Burnaburiaš I]],<ref group=nb>Inscribed as <sup>m</sup>[''b'']''ur-na-bu-ra-ri-ia-aš'', consistent with an early Kassite spelling.</ref> grandson of [[Agum II]]. It describes his ritual use of a silver spade and basket, which were subsequently displayed in the temple of [[Enlil]], and his conscription of the people and land of Yamutbal for its excavation. Although he is designated as ''šakkanak Enlil'', “governor of Enlil”, the title and subsequent elaborate curse formula against those who might later efface the inscription implies his regnal status.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Kaštiliašu and the Sumundar Canal: A New Middle Babylonian Royal Inscription | author = Kathleen Abraham and Uri Gabbay | journal = Zeitschrift für Assyriologie | volume = 103 | number = 2 | year = 2013 | pages = 183–195 }}</ref>

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==References==

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[[Category:Kassite kings]]
[[Category:Babylonian kings]]
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