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Kandalanu (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Kandalānu) was a vassal king of Babylon under the Neo-Assyrian kings Ashurbanipal and Ashur-etil-ilani, ruling from his appointment by Ashurbanipal in 647 BC to his own death in 627 BC.
- 627 BC
- Shamash-shum-ukin
- 647–627 BC
- Sin-shumu-lishir
After a reign twenty one years, Kandalanu died in 627 B.C., and he was succeeded by Nabopolassar after a short interregnum.Notes[edit]Jump up ^ inscription KAV 182 r. 5-7 see also N. Na'aman, ZA 81 1991, p 248-249Jump up ^ G. Frame, Babylonia 689-627 B.C. p. 303-304Jump up ^ notable is ‘S. Zwadzki, the Fall of Assyria’ where Zawadzki argues ...
Kandalanu's realm was the same as Shamash-shum-ukin's with the exception of the city of Nippur, which Ashurbanipal converted into a powerful Assyrian fortress. The authority of Kandalanu is likely to have been very limited and few records survive of his reign at Babylon.
- 669–631 BC
- Libbali-sharrat
The Uruk King List (also known as "King List 5" and ANET 3 566) is an important historiographical document from ancient Babylonia. It mentions the length of the reigns of several kings, beginning with Kandalanu (r.647-627) and continuing to the Seleucid king Seleucus II Callinicus (r.246-226/225).
Mar 15, 2011 · It is certain from a group of tablets from Dilbat, now in the Ašshmolean Museum (Weld Collection), that Kandalānu (Κινηλαδνου) and Ašurbanipal were the same persons; for this group of tablets from the same collection has the following dates: 1924, 487, Belibni, year 2, month Šabat, day 29; 1924, 489, Ašur-nādin-šumi, year 4 ...
Some years later (629?) Sin-shar-ishkun finally succeeded in obtaining the kingship. In Babylonian documents dates can be found for all three kings. To add to the confusion, until 626 there are also dates of Ashurbanipal and a king named Kandalanu. In 626 the Chaldean Nabopolassar (Nabu-apal-uṣur) revolted from Uruk and occupied Babylon.
did Kandalanu's. But if Ashurbanipal's twenty-third year was 626-5, then his first year must have been 648-7, a year earlier than Kandalanu's. This is a reductio ad absurdum, and the equation with Kandalanu's dating immediately becomes impossible. But the 30th year at Babylon, and also the 26th at Nippur, prove that the dating by Ashurbanipal
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