predecessor successor title article_title name reign
burna-buriaš ii kara-ḫardaš nazi-bugaš nazi-maruttaš king of babylon kurigalzu ii
 kuri-galzu ii ca. 1332-1308 bc
kurigalzu ii

kurigalzu ii -lrb- ca. 1332-1308 bc short chronology -rrb- was the 22nd king of the kassite or 3rd dynasty that ruled over babylon .
in more than twelve inscriptions , kurigalzu names burna-buriaš ii as his father .
kurigalzu ii was placed on the kassite throne by the assyrian king aššur-uballiṭ i , reigned during a period of weakness and instability for twenty five years , eventually turning on his former allies and quite possibly defeating them at the battle of sugagu .
he was once thought to have been the conqueror of the elamites but this now tends to be assigned to the earlier king of this name , together with the `` chronicle p '' account .
there is a gap of a little over forty years between his reign and that of his earlier namesake , kurigalzu i and , as it was not customary to assign regnal year numbers , and they both had lengthy reigns , this makes it exceptionally difficult to distinguish for whom an inscription is intended .
a few royal inscriptions are clearly assignable to kurigalzu ii since they give the name of his father , burna-buriaš , but these record either the dedication of objects , such as eye stones , beads , axe-heads , etc. , or appear on the cylinder seals of his servants , such as the accountant , uballissu-marduk .
167 economic texts , mostly from nippur , are assigned to him based on the style of the date formula and record up to the 24th year of his reign .
