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Definition of Cassite
1. Noun. An ancient language spoken by the Kassites.
2. Noun. A member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cassite
| Casta Castalian Castanea chrysophylla Castanea crenata Castanea dentata Castanea mollissima Castanea ozarkensis Castanea pumila |
Literary usage of Cassite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Empires of the East: Herodotos I-III by Herodotus, Archibald Henry Sayce (1883)
"With the help of his Elamite allies he succeeded in repulsing the first attack
of the cassite invader ; but a second attack proved too strong for him ..."
2. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1849)
"are but two signs (NE and BI) which dift'er from cassite forms in favor of an
earlier period, while one (KAB) is intermediate in form between forms of the ..."
3. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History by Morris Jastrow (1915)
"While continuing to recognize Babylon as the official residence, the cassite
rulers seemed bent on restoring to Nippur the prestige which this centre lost ..."
4. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1913)
"The names which it contains were current "when the cassite rulers held sway over
Babylonia, from about 1750 BC to about 1173 BC, a period of nearly seven ..."
5. Explorations in Bible Lands During the 19th Century by Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht, Immanuel Benzinger, Fritz Hommel, Georg Steindorff (1903)
"Apparently because the discovery of cassite tablets outside the large ... But are
we on their account justified in claiming the structure as cassite? ..."
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