| 释义 |
Kassite, n. and a.|ˈkæsaɪt|
Also Cossæan, Kasshi, Kossæan.
[Native name.]
A. n. A member of an Elamite people from the central range of the Zagros mountains, who ruled Babylon from the 18th to the 12th century b.c.; also, their language.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Kassites.
1888Z. A. Ragozin Assyria (ed. 2) ix. 300 The next..expedition, against the very warlike and turbulent mountain tribes of the Kasshi (Cossæans of classical writers), is of some interest because of the details we are given concerning that most rugged region of the Zagros range. 1894A. H. Sayce Primer of Assyriology iii. 47 Babylonia was conquered by Kassite princes who ruled over it for 576 years and nine months (b.c. 1806–1229). 1898C. R. Conder Hittites & their Lang. ii. 41 The Kassites thus became dependent on Assyria. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 43/1 Babylonia was conquered by Kassites or Kossæans from the mountain of Elam, under Kandis or Gaddas (in 1800 b.c.), who established a dynasty which lasted for 576 years and nine months. 1909Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 4/4 There is a letter to Kadashman-Targu, the Kassite King of Babylon, as to the appointment of a successor. 1928[see Gutian n. and a.]. 1934A. Toynbee Study of Hist. I. 116 The Kingdom of the Sea-Land..had been annexed to the barbarian ‘successor-state’, subsequently established by the Kassites at Babylon, at the turn of the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries b.c. 1938T. Fish in E. I. J. Rosenthal Judaism & Christianity III. ii. 31 In the second millennium Babylonia was Semitic, though the rulers and the court at Babylon were non-Semitic (Kassite) for several centuries. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xii. 380 Attempts have been made to connect the language [sc. Elamite] with Altaic,..with Kassite, and with Carian... The language of the Kassites (or Cossaeans)..is known only from a scanty glossary. 1964G. Roux Ancient Iraq vi. 79 The Sumerians..and..the Amorites, Kassites, Assyrians and Chaldaeans who, after them, ruled in succession over Mesopotamia. |