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The Babyloniaca is a text written in the Greek language by the Babylonian priest and historian Berossus in the 3rd century BCE. Although the work is now lost, it survives in substantial fragments from subsequent authors, especially in the works of the fourth-century CE Christian author and bishop Eusebius, [1] and was known to a limited extent in learned circles as late as late antiquity. [2]
The name "Berossus" likely originates from a theophoric name whose first component was Bel, meaning "Lord," which was a common title for Marduk.The original name was either either Bēl-rē’ûšunu, meaning "the god Bel is their shepherd," or Bēl-uṣuršu, meaning "O Bel watch over him!"
Babyloniaca may refer to: Babyloniaca, a lost historical work of Berossus; Babyloniaca [fi; ru], an ancient Greek novel of Iamblichus (novelist) See also.
Iamblichus (Ancient Greek: Ἰάμβλιχος; fl. c. 165–180 AD) was an ancient Syrian Greek novelist.He was the author of the Babyloniaca (Βαβυλωνιακά, Babylōniaká, 'Babylonian Stories' [1]), a romance novel in Greek.
Bilingual tablet, Graeco-Babyloniaca, c. 50 BC to 50 AC (Harvard Semitic Museum) The Graeco-Babyloniaca (singular: Graeco-Babyloniacum [1]) are clay tablets written in the Sumerian or Akkadian languages using cuneiform on one side with transliterations in the Greek alphabet on the other.
Na - bi - um - ku - du - ur - ri - u - ṣu - ur [59] Even if the same spelling is used, there were also several different scripts of cuneiform signs: a name, even if spelt the same, looks considerably different in Old Babylonian signs compared to Neo-Babylonian signs or Neo-Assyrian signs. [ 60 ]
Babylonia (/ ˌ b æ b ɪ ˈ l oʊ n i ə /; Akkadian: 𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠, māt Akkadī) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Kuwait, Syria and Iran).
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