R.J. (Bert) van der Spek, emeritus professor of Ancient Mediterranean and West Asian history at the Vrije Universiteit (VU University) Amsterdam, specializes in the history of Hellenistic Babylonia. Presently he is working on an edition of Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period (BCHP), here online, with the historical sections of the Astronomical Diaries to be added. They will be published in I.L. Finkel, R.J. van der Spek, R. Pirngruber, Babylonian Chronographic Texts from the Hellenistic Period (2020). He also is working on projects concerning the history of market performance and the history of silver and money from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present.

There are 93 items in Bert van der Spek:

ABC 9: Artaxerxes III Chronicle

Antiochus Cylinder

The Cylinder of Antiochus I Soter from the Ezida Temple in Borsippa is one of the Mesopotamian chronicles written in ancient Babylonia in the Hellenistic Period. It describes how the Seleucid crown prince Antiochus, the son of king Seleucus Nicator, rebuilt the…

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Antiochus Cylinder	Antiochus Cylinder	Antiochus Cylinder	Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (BM35603), left edge
Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (BM35603), obverse	Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (BM35603), reverse