The tablet of Akaptaḫa, or Agaptaḫa, is an ancient Mesopotamian private commemorative inscription on stone of the donation of a 10 GUR field (about 200 acres)[1] by Kassite king Kaštiliašu IV (c. 1232 BC – 1225 BC) to a fugitive leatherworker from Assyrian-occupied Ḫanigalbat in grateful recognition of his services provisioning the Babylonian army with bridles (pagumu, a loanword from Hurrian or perhaps Kassite) .

Padnu), one of the eastern provinces somewhere (Jebel Hamrin, according to Jensen) in the upper Diyala region which had been claimed by the Kassites since the time of Agum II.

[3] The object was recovered during the French excavations at Susa at the end of the 19th century, where it had been taken as war booty during one of the Elamite invasions following the overthrow of Kaštiliašu IV by Tukulti-Ninurta I, those of Kidin-Hutran III (ca.

The tablet describes itself using the same term applied generally to kudurrus as a narû, "stele", and falls into the same tradition of entitlement monuments, excepting the absence of religious iconography and the format of the granting and cursing formulae.

[4] The inscription uses an informal mix of monumental and cursive cuneiform, precedes the royal name with a masculine (1 or m) rather than the divine (DINGIR) or (D) determinative and spells his name with -ti-li- in place of the more usual –til-, suggesting its provincial origin or perhaps its lack of authenticity.