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 (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…
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…
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…
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 (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…
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…
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…
In the Cyrus Cylinder, a cuneiform tablet now in the British Museum, Cyrus describes how he had conquered Babylon (October 539 BCE). It is interesting because the Persian king presents himself to his new subjects as the perfect ruler, carefully…
The Great Flood: mythological story about a great destruction that once befell the earth. There are several variants; the Biblical version is the most famous. The possibility that there is a historical event behind the story (a local flood in southern Babylonia in the…