When Kurigalzu, a member of the Cassite dynasty (_c._ 1400 B.C.), speaks of 'Bel, the lord of lands,' to whom he erects a temple in the new city, Dur-Kurigalzu-- some forty miles to the northeast of Babylon--it is the old Bel who is again meant.

While acknowledging Marduk as one of the chief gods, these foreign rulers in Babylonia--the Cassites--did not feel the same attachment to him as Hammurabi did.

They gave the preference to the old god of Nippur, and, indeed, succeeded in their attempt to give to the old city of Nippur some of its pristine glory.

They devoted themselves assiduously to the care of the great temple at Nippur.

There are some indications of an attempt made by them to make Nippur the capital of their empire.