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The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely-defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history. [2] They represent one of the first steps in the development of ancient historiography. The Babylonian Chronicles are written in Babylonian cuneiform and date from the reign of Nabonassar until the Parthian Period.
The Chronicle of Early Kings, named ABC 20 in Grayson’s Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles [2] and CM 40 in Glassner’s Chroniques mésopotamiennes [3] is a Babylonian chronicle preserved on two tablets: tablet A [i 1] is well preserved whereas tablet B [i 2] is broken and the text is fragmentary.
The ABC5 is a continuation of Babylonian Chronicle ABC4 (The Late Years of Nabopolassar), where Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned as the Crown Prince. [2] Since the ABC 5 only provides a record through Nebuchadnezzar's eleventh year, [ 3 ] the subsequent destruction and exile recorded in the Hebrew Bible to have taken place ten years later are not ...
The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets.It deals primarily with the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, covers the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and ends with the start of the reign of Cyrus's son Cambyses II, spanning a period ...
The Babyloniaca is a text written in the Greek language by the Babylonian priest and historian Berossus in the 3rd century BCE. The Babyloniaca is structured into three books. . The first recounts Babylonian geography and a variant of the cosmogony of the Enūma Eliš, as well as the transition of the existence of man prior to the divine law and after it had been reveal
The Eclectic Chronicle, referred to in earlier literature as the New Babylonian Chronicle, is an ancient Mesopotamian account of the highlights of Babylonian history during the post-Kassite era prior to the 689 BC fall of the city of Babylon. It is an important source of historiography from the period of the early iron-age dark-age with few ...
The Dynastic Chronicle, "Chronicle 18" in Grayson's Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles [2] or the "Babylonian Royal Chronicle" in Glassner’s Mesopotamian Chronicles, [3] is a fragmentary ancient Mesopotamian text extant in at least four known copies.
The two periods in the Babylonian section where no king is listed the first represents two pretenders whose legitimacy the compiler did not recognize, and the second extends from the year Babylon was sacked by Sennacherib, King of Assyria to the restoration of Esarhaddon. [2] [3]