Agum II (Agum‑Kakrime)

In the inscriptionary tradition preserved as the Agum‑Kakrime text, Agum presents himself as a Kassite ruler who recovered the cult statue of the city‑god Marduk from the land of Ḫana after a period in which the statue had been removed from Babylon, and who renovated the É‑sagila and restored its cult. The surviving narrative frames these actions as establishing his legitimacy and care for both Kassites and Akkadians; the text survives in later copies and is treated as a specialized antiquarian/ritual text in the Ashurbanipal library.

The provided sources contain no physical description of Agum II; the extant materials are inscriptional and focus on his acts, titulary, and ritual program rather than bodily features.

Agum II's 'powers' in the sources are political and cultic rather than supernatural: he claims suzerainty over various peoples (Padan, Alman, Guteans), commissions restoration of temple architecture and cultic equipment, arranges purification rites (including a rite described as performed by a snake charmer), donates to the temple, and orders the creation of protective door‑demons to guard the cella and cult statue of Marduk and his consort Zarpanītum. He functions as a ritual patron and restorer who legitimates rule through care for the city‑god's cult.