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The translation of the Nabonidus Cylinder of Sippar was made by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, author of, "The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556-539 B.C." [4] [5] [i.1-7] I, Nabonidus, the great king, the strong king, the king of the universe, the king of Babylon, the king of the four corners, the caretaker of Esagila and Ezida, for whom Sin and Ningal in his mother's womb decreed a royal fate as ...
Šagarakti-Šuriaš, written phonetically ša-ga-ra-ak-ti-šur-ia-aš or d ša-garak-ti-šu-ri-ia-aš in cuneiform or in a variety of other forms, Šuriaš (a Kassite sun god corresponding to Babylonian Šamaš) gives me life, (1245–1233 BC short chronology) was the twenty seventh king of the Third or Kassite dynasty of Babylon.
Clay cylinder records the restoration of Sîn's ziggurat at Ur by Nabonidus and also asks Sîn to protect Nabonidus and his son, Belshazzar Details on Nabonidus's family are scarce. He likely had a large family even prior to becoming king, seeing as his mother Adad-guppi in her inscriptions claims that she had great-great-grandchildren, [ 26 ...
The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) [1] is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE.The tablet, which measures 11.6 centimetres (4.6 in) high and 5 centimetres (2.0 in) wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, [a] a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.
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 cuneiform texts – the Nabonidus Chronicle, the Cyrus Cylinder and the so-called Verse Account of Nabonidus – were written after the Persian victory. They portray Nabonidus negatively and present Cyrus as the liberator of Babylon, the defender of the Babylonian gods and consequently as the legitimate successor to the Babylonian throne. [16]
Creation myths and flood myths – recorded on the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Atra-Hasis tablets, the Enûma Eliš, the Eridu Genesis and the Barton Cylinder Law tablets – ancient Near East legal tablets: Code of Hammurabi , Laws of Eshnunna , the Code of Ur-Nammu , king of Ur (c. 2050 BC), the Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC) and the Code of Lipit ...
Cylinder by Nabonidus, commemorating restoration work done on a temple dedicated to the god Sîn in Ur. Exhibited at the British Museum. Eventually, their children began to annoy the elder gods and Abzu decided to rid himself of them by killing them.