à  agarakti-à  uriaà ¡, written phonetically à ¡a-ga-ra-ak-ti-à ¡ur-ia-aà ¡ or <sup>d</sup>à ¡a-garak-ti-à ¡u-ri-ia-aà ¡ in cuneiform or in a variety of other forms, à  uriaà ¡ (a Kassite sun god corresponding to Babylonian à  amaà ¡) gives me life, (c. 1245âÂÂ1233 BC was the twenty seventh king of the Third or Kassite dynasty of Babylon. The earliest extant economic text is dated to the 5th day of Nisan in his accession year, corresponding to his predecessorâÂÂs year 9, suggesting the succession occurred very early in the year as this month was the first in the Babylonian calendar. He ruled for thirteen years and was succeeded by his son, Kaà ¡tiliaà ¡u IV.
The Babylonian King List A names Kudur-Enlil as his father but there are no confirmatory contemporary inscriptions and the reigns are too short around this period to allow for the genealogy alleged by this king list. He is featured in a fragmentary letter written in later times between the Assyrian king (Tukulti-Ninurta I) and the Hittite king (possibly Suppiluliuma II suggested by Singer). Unfortunately the text is not well preserved and does not name the kings, but the phrase âÂÂnon-son of Kudur-Enlilâ is apparently used to describe the ruler of Babylon, in a passage discussing the genealogy of the Kassite monarchy. Tablets with this rulers name were found at the rural Kassite village of Tell Zubeidi in the in the upper Diyala River region.
A large inscribed stone, of unusual provenance, was photographed and then lost in KermÃÂnà ¡ÃÂh province Iran. It read "One talent, correct (weight), of Rabâ-à ¡a-Adad, à ¡a rÃÂà ¡i (official) of à  agarakti-à  uriaà ¡, son of Ku⸣dur -Enlil, king of the world". This would indicate that paternity of this ruler.
More than three hundred economic texts have been found in several caches from Ur, Dur-Kurigalzu, and overwhelmingly Nippur dated to à  agarakti-à  uriaà ¡â reign. In addition, there are 127 tablets recently published probably recovered from Dà «r-EnlilÃÂ. They are characterized by the extraordinary variety of spellings used to name this king, who bears a defiantly Kassite title in contrast with his predecessor. Brinkman identifies eighty four permutations, but disputes the suggestion by others that ÃÂtanaḫ-à  amaà ¡ was a Babylonianized equivalent adopted to overcome the linguistic problems of the natives. The texts record events such as the hire of slaves, payments in butter to temple servants, and even an agreement to assume a debt for which a priest had been imprisoned. Amël-Marduk was the à  andabakku or governor of Nippur during his reign, a position he had filled since the earlier reign of Kudur-Enlil. Four tablets obtained on the antiquities market but believed to be from Nippur concern the release of prisoners after a guarantee. They date to the accession year, year 1, and year 2 of à  agarakti-à  uriaà ¡.
It has been suggested that the preponderance of commercial texts detailing debts, loans and slave transactions indicate that Babylonia faced hard economic times during his reign, where people sold themselves into slavery to repay their creditors. One of which seems to indicate his involvement in the incarceration of an individual while another is a declaration of zakût nippurÃÂti, "freeing of the women of Nippur" as part of a general amnesty. Ini-Teà ¡ub, the king of Kargamià ¡, wrote a letter to him complaining about the activities of the Ahlamu and their effect on communications and presumably trade.
à  agarakti-à  uriaà ¡ built the shrine, or Eulmaà ¡, of the warrior goddess Ià ¡tar-Annunëtu, in the city of Sippar-Annunëtu. Nabonidus (556-539 BC), the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, recorded on one of his four foundation cylinders, pictured, that
They were actually separated by slightly less than six hundred and eighty years. This is the only other inscription describing à  agarakti-à  uriaà ¡ as son of Kudur-Enlil. Another of his cylinders quotes his statue inscription, buried in a trench at the site of the temple:
A clay tablet from the time of Sennacherib (705âÂÂ681 BC) quotes a legendary inscription from a lapis lazuli seal. Originally the seal was in the possession of Shagarakti-Shuriash, but was carried off to Nineveh by Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243âÂÂ1207 BC) as war booty when he sacked Babylon during Kaà ¡tiliaà ¡uâÂÂs reign, and he had his own inscription engraved on it without erasing the original. Sometime afterwards the seal again found its way back to Babylon, in circumstances unknown, where it was re-plundered, some six hundred years later by Sennacherib.
A brick discovered in situ in Nippur has an inscription along its edge which shows that à  agarakti-à  uriaà ¡ commissioned work here on the Ekur of Enlil as well.