Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nebuchadnezzar I [b] (/ ˌ n ɛ b j ʊ k ə d ˈ n ɛ z ər / NEB-yuu-kəd-NEZ-ər; Babylonian: md Nabû-kudurrī-úṣur (AN-AG-ŠA-DU-ŠIŠ) [i 2] or md Nábû-ku-dúr-uṣur, [i 3] meaning "Nabû, protect my eldest son" or "Nabû, protect the border"; reigned c. 1121–1100 BC) was the fourth king of the Second Dynasty of Isin and Fourth Dynasty of Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, [1] meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"), [2] also spelled Nebuchadrezzar, [2] and most commonly known under the nickname Kudurru, was a governor of the city Uruk in Babylonia under the rule of Ashurbanipal (r.
The kudurru of Šitti-Marduk, commemorating Nebuchadnezzar's victory over Elam. Nebuchadnezzar invaded Elam for the first time around 1115 BC, but, according to later traditions, this expedition ended in failure when his soldiers were stricken by plague. He invaded a second time, meeting Hutelutush-Inshushinak and his troops at the Ulai river.
Of the 32 stones that the researchers sampled, five bore stamps linking them to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, between 604 and 562 BC. ... The 10 carry-on essentials that make for a first-class ...
The damaged line in the Uruk King List is the only known surviving reference to a king by the name Nidin-Bel. [ 17 ] The tablet BCHP 1 (alternatively BM 36304 or ABC 8, known as the Alexander Chronicle ) was written in Babylon during the Hellenistic period (after Alexander the Great 's conquest of the Persian Empire) and records events from the ...
Before the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 24th century BC, Mesopotamia was fragmented into a number of city states. Whereas some surviving Mesopotamian documents, such as the Sumerian King List, describe this period as one where there was only one legitimate king at any one given time, and kingship was transferred from city to city sequentially, the historical reality was that there were ...
The Chaldean dynasty, also known as the Neo-Babylonian dynasty [2] [b] and enumerated as Dynasty X of Babylon, [2] [c] was the ruling dynasty of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling as kings of Babylon from the ascent of Nabopolassar in 626 BC to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC.
The Kudurru for Šitti-Marduk is a white limestone boundary stone of Nebuchadrezzar I, a king of the 2nd Dynasty of Isin, c. the late 12th century BC. He is known to have made at least four kudurru boundary stones.