Bert van der Spek
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:
BCHP 9 (End of Seleucus I Chronicle)
The Chronicle concerning the last years of Seleucus ("End of Seleucus chronicle"; BCHP 9) is one of the Mesopotamian chronicles written in ancient Babylonia in the Hellenistic Period. It describes the final days of the reign of king Seleucus, who defeated…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…
Dynastic Prophecy, Columns I and II |
Dynastic Prophecy, Columns VI and V |
Labraunda, Hecatomnid tomb |
Labraunda, Inscription of Maussolus |
Mesopotamian Chronicles - Literature
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE (cf. this table).General ABC Grayson, A.K. 1975, Assyrian…
Rhodes, Portrait of Alexander the Great as Helios |
Rhodes, Portrait of Posidonius of Apamea |