Kidin-Hutran

Kidin-Hutran is a middle-Elamite king of the Igihalkid dynasty known for his wars with Babylonia. The Babylonian Chronicle P describes two Kidin-Hutran attacks (iv 14-22).[1] In his first raid, he crossed Tigris, sacked Der and Nippur and deposed the Babylonian king (almost certainly an Assyrian puppet) Enlil-nadin-shumi. Later on, during the reign of Addad-Shuma-Iddina, he attacked Babylonia again, striking Marad and Isin [2]

Kidin-Hutran is also mentioned in the so-called Berlin letter (Pergamon Museum ,VAT17020), a neo-Babylonian copy of a letter sent by an unnamed Elamite king to the Babylonian court, stating his right to the Babylonian throne.[3] The letter states that Kidin-Hurtan was a son of the king Untash-Napirisha and a grandson of the Babylonian king Burna-Buriash.

Since there is more than 100 years distance between the end of Burna-Buriash reign and the accession of Addad-Shuma-Iddina, some authors [4] assume that there were more than one king with this name.

References
  1. A. Kirk Grayson. Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles, Eisenbrauns, 2000
  2. .T.Potts (1999). The Archaeology of Elam. Cambridge University Press. p. 208.p.234
  3. J. Goldberg . The Berlin Letter, Middle Elamite Chronology and Sutruk-Nahhunte I’s Genealogy . Iranica Antiqua, 39, 2004
  4. F. Vallat, L'Elam du lie millenaire et la chronologie courte, in Akkadica, Akkadica 119-120 (2000), pp. 7-17


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