Tepti-ahar was the
king
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king.
*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
of
Elam at the end of 15th or the beginning of 14th century BCE. He was apparently the last king of the Kidinuid dynasty, who returned to the use of the old title “King of Susa and Anzan”.
Tepti-Ahar built a new capital of Kanbak (modern
Haft Tepe
Haft Tepe (also Haft Tape) is an archaeological site situated in the Khuzestan Province in south-western Iran. At this site the possible remains of the Elamite city of Kabnak were discovered in 1908, and excavations are still carried out.
Histo ...
, 10 km from
Susa). The excavated archive shows the diplomatic exchange with Babylonia, possibly even dynastic marriages.
A tablet found at Haft Tepe (HT38) is dated to the “year when the king expelled Kadašman-KUR.GAL”. The tablet has a seal of Tepti-Ahar, King of Susa. KUR.GAL could be read either as “Harbe”or “Enlil” (since Harbe is a Kassite god parallel to Babylonian Enlil),
[ p. 202-204.
Based on the prosopography of tablets found in the archive from Haft Tepe, it can be stated that Tepti-ahar succeeded another Kidinuid king, Inshushinak-shar-ilani(see tablets HT29-30)][K.deGraef, Jean Tavernier, editors. Susa and Elam. p.170]
Dynasty of the Kidinuides (1455-1405)
* Kidinû
* Inshushinak-zunkir-nappipir
* Tan-Ruhuhatir II
* Shalla
* Tepti-ahar
References
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Elamite kings