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Art. XXI.—The Babylonian Chronicle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

Among the tablets acquired by the British Museum in 1884, is one of peculiar interest. It is a tablet of unbaked clay, 6⅛ in. by 7¾ in., inscribed, on both sides, with two columns of writing in the Cuneiform or wedge-character. This tablet is one of a series which must have contained, when entire, a complete chronicle of all the important events which had taken place in Babylonia, Assyria, Elam, etc., in ancient times. The text (of which a paraphrase has already been published by the present writer) begins with the reign of Nabonassar (747 B.C.), and ends with the accession of Šamas-šum-ukîn or Saosduchinos, brother of Aššur-banî-âpli (667 B.C.). The subject of this tablet was continued on others of the series, a part of one of the tablets, referring to the reign of Nabonidus and relating the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, having been acquired in 1878.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1887

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References

page 655 note 1 Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology for 05, 1884.Google Scholar

page 655 note 2 See the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. vii. part i. 1880.

page 655 note 3 Zeitschrift für Assyriologie for 06, 1887.Google Scholar

page 664 note * Here apparently an erasure in the original.

page 673 note 1 Blank.

page 673 note 2 Here a blank, followed by the character ki.