Kassite deity

Kassite deities were usually shown with triangular or horned headdresses, and were often placed around cuneiform inscriptions.

The text invokes "the gods of the king", presumably the Kassite deities Šuqamuna and Šumalia.

Šuqamuna and Šumalia, the Kassite deities associated with the investiture of kings are portrayed by a bird on a perch.

This motif is often seen in other works that were used as dedicatory or ritual practice in the Kassite religion (see also: Kassite Deities).

The only Kassite deities who had separate and distinct temples anywhere in Babylonia were apparently the patron deities of the royal family, Šuqamuna and Šumaliya.

A king named Agum II ruled a state that extended from Iran to the middle Euphrates; 24 years after the Hittites took the sacred statue of Marduk, he recovered it and declared the god equal to the Kassite deity Shuqamuna.