Babylonia
There are 354 items in Babylonia:
CM 15 (Tiglath-pileser I Chronicle)
The Chronicle of Tiglath-Pileser I is a tablet from Aššur that contained an Assyrian chronicle; the Chronicle of Enlil-nirari may have been part of the same tablet. It describes the unfriendly relations between Assyria, the Aramaeans, and Babylonia during the…CM 27 (Fragment from a Neo-Babylonian chronicle)
The following text is a very small fragment of one of the Mesopotamian chronicles written in ancient Babylonia in the Hellenistic Period. Only some beginnings of lines of one column on the obverse of the tablet are legible. For a very…CM 4 (Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period)
The Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (also known as "King List 6") is an important historiographical document from ancient Babylonia.The Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (also known as "King List 6") is an important historiographical document…CM 41 (Fragmentary Chronicle on Ancient Kings)
CM 41 (Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 41): fragmentary text that appears to belong to the Chronicle of Early Kings (ABC 20).The Chronicle of Early Kings (ABC 20) is a historiographical text from ancient Babylonia. Although it purports to offer information about the…CM 42 (Fragmentary Chronicle on the Kings of the Sealand)
Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 42 (CM 42) is a fragment of a larger Mesopotamian chronicle on the Kings of the Sealand.The following text is a very small fragment of a Mesopotamian chronicle, written in Babylonian. The tablet deals with the history of…CM 43 (A fragment of Samsuiluna)
Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 43 (CM 43) is a fragment of a larger chronicle dealing with Babylonian king Samsuiluna (r.1750-1712), the successor of Hammurabi.The following text is a very small fragment of a Babylonian chronicle that was found in the library of…CM 44 (A fragment of Samsuiluna)
Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 44 (CM 44) is a fragment of a larger Mesopotamian chronicle dealing with Babylonian king Samsuiluna (r.1750-1712), the successor of Hammurabi.The following text is a very small fragment of a Mesopotamian chronicle that was found in the library…CM 48 (Kings of Ur)
CM 48 (Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 48): chronicle of the reign of king Šulgi of Ur.The following text, written in Uruk in the year 251 BCE, is part of a Babylonian chronicle, and deals with reign of the godless Sumerian king Šulgi…CM 52 (Nabu-šuma-iškun)
The following, very fragmentary text from Uruk, is a chronographic document dealing with the history of Babylonia in the eighth century BCE, and especially the demise of king Nabû-šuma-iškun, who died in 748, after he had broken all written and…CM 53 (Chronographic Document concerning Nabonidus)
The Chronographic Document concerning Nabonidus is a cuneiform text that describes events from the second and third years of the reign of Nabonidus (r.556-539). The following chronographic document is a damaged part of what may have been a Babylonian chronicle from…Ctesiphon
Ctesiphon (Parthian Tyspwn): ancient city on the Tigris, founded by the Parthians. The city was the capital of the Parthian and the Sasanian empires.Origin …
Ctesiphon, Sasanian relief of a boar |