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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Ulam-Buriaš
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = ca. 1480 BC
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| predecessor = ? [[Kashtiliash III|Kaštiliašu III]]
| successor = ? [[Agum III]]
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| royal house = [[Kassites|Kassite]]
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'''Ulam-Buriaš''', contemporarily inscribed as ''Ú-la-Bu-ra-ra-[[ia (cuneiform)|ia]]-[[aš (cuneiform)|aš]]''<ref group=i name=mace>Mace head VA Bab. 645 (BE 6405) with ten line possession inscription, in the [[Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin]].</ref> or <sup>m</sup>''Ú-lam-Bur-áš'' in a later chronicle<ref group=i name=early>''Chronicle of Early Kings'', tablets BM 26472 and BM 96152 in the [[British Museum]].</ref> and meaning “son of (the [[Kassite deities|Kassite deity]]) Buriaš”, was a [[Kassites|Kassite]] king of Sealand ([[cuneiform]]:<small>LUGAL KUR [[a (cuneiform)|A]].[[ab (cuneiform)|AB]].BA</small>, [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]: ''šar māt tâmti''), which he conquered during the second half of 16th century BC and may have also become king of [[Babylon]], possibly preceding or succeeding his brother, [[Kashtiliash III|Kaštiliašu III]].<ref>{{ cite book | title = Materials and Studies for Kassite History, Vol. 1 | author = J. A. Brinkman | publisher = Oriental Institute | year = 1976 | pages = 318–319 }}</ref> His reign marks the point at which the Kassite kingdom extended to the whole of southern [[Mesopotamia]].

==Biography==

Confirmation of his provenance comes from an [[onyx]] weight, in the shape of a frog, with a cuneiform inscription, “1 shekel, Ulam Buriaš, son of [[Burnaburiash I|Burna Buriaš]]”, which was found in a large burial, during excavations of the site of the ancient city of [[Metsamor]].<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Babylonian Weight from the Sixteenth Century b.c. with Cuneiform Inscription from the Metsamor Excavations |author1=E. V. Khanzadian |author2=G. Kh. Sarkisian |author3=I. M. Diakonoff | journal = Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia | volume = 30| issue = 4 | date = Spring 1992 | pages = 75–83 | doi=10.2753/aae1061-1959300475}}</ref> The burial for two, was accompanied by fifty sacrificial victims, nineteen horses, bulls, sheep and dogs.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = The Northern Frontier of the Ancient Near East: Transcaucasia and Central Asia Compared | author = Philip L. Kohl | journal = American Journal of Archaeology | publisher = American Institute of Archaeology | volume = 92 | issue = 4 | year = 1988 | page = 595 | jstor = 505256 }}</ref> Situated in Armenia, in the middle of the Ararat valley, Metsamor was an important [[Hurrians|Hurrian]] center for metal forging.

The ''[[Chronicle of Early Kings]]'', a neo-Babylonian historiographical text preserved on two tablets,<ref group=i name=early/> describes how Ea-gamil, the last king of the [[Sealand Dynasty]], fled to [[Elam]] ahead of an invasion force led by Ulam-Buriaš, the “brother of Kaštiliašu”, who became “master of the land” (''bēlūt māti īpuš''), i.e. Sealand, a region of southern Mesopotamia synonymous with or at the southern end of [[Sumer]]. A [[serpentinite|serpentine]] or [[diorite]] mace head or possibly door knob found in Babylon,<ref group=i name=mace/> is engraved with the epithet of Ulaburariaš, “King of Sealand”.<ref>{{ cite journal | title = Assyrische Königsliste und "Dunkles Zeitalter" (Continued) | author = B. Landsberger | journal = Journal of Cuneiform Studies | volume = 8 | issue = 2 | year = 1954 | jstor = 1359531 | pages = 70–71 }} n. 182</ref> The object was excavated at Tell Amran ibn-Ali, during the German excavations of Babylon, conducted from 1899 to 1912, and is now housed in the [[Pergamon Museum]].

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