Burna-Buriaš II, rendered in
cuneiform as
Bur-na- or
Bur-ra-Bu-ri-ia-aš in royal inscriptions and letters, and meaning
servant of the Lord of the lands in the
Kassite language, where Buriaš is a
Kassite storm god possibly corresponding to the Greek
Boreas, was a king in the
Kassite dynasty of
Babylon, in a kingdom called
Karduniaš at the time, ruling ca. 1359–1333 BC (
short chronology). Recorded as the 19th King to ascend the Kassite throne, he succeeded
Kadašman-Enlil I, who was likely his father, and ruled for 27 years. He was a contemporary of the
Egyptian Pharaoh
Akhenaten. The proverb "the time of checking the books is the shepherds' ordeal" was attributed to him in a letter to the later king
Esarhaddon from his agent Mar-Issar.