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The Uruk King List, recording rulers of Babylon from Kandalanu (r. 648–627 BC) to Seleucus II Callinicus (r. 246–225 BC) The Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period, recording rulers of Babylon from Alexander the Great (r. 331–323 in Babylon) to Demetrius II Nicator (r. 145–141 BC in Babylon)
The origins of the First Babylonian dynasty are hard to pinpoint because Babylon itself yields few archaeological materials intact due to a high water table.The evidence that survived throughout the years includes written records such as royal and votive inscriptions, literary texts, and lists of year-names.
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Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
This list deals only with the rulers of Babylon. It has been found in two versions, denoted A and B both written in Neo-Babylonian times. The later dynasties in the list document the Kassite and Sealand periods though a number of Kassite rulers are damaged. Ruler names largely match other records but the regnal lengths are more problematic. [52]
The First Sealand dynasty (URU.KÙ KI [nb 1] [1]), or the 2nd Dynasty of Babylon (although it was independent of Amorite-ruled Babylon), very speculatively c. 1732–1460 BC (short chronology), is an enigmatic series of kings attested to primarily in laconic references in the king lists A and B, and as contemporaries recorded on the Assyrian Synchronistic king list A.117.
Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History, originally published as Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History is a wallchart which graphically depicts a Biblical genealogy alongside a timeline composed of historic sources from the history of humanity from 4004 BC to modern times.
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