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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…CM 6 (The Royal Chronicle of Lagaš)
The Royal Chronicle of Lagaš is a fragment of a Mesopotamian chronicle that appears to be some sort of addition to the Sumerian King List, which does not refer to the city of Lagaš. …CM 7 (Tummal Chronicle)
CM 7 (Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 7): Sumerian text on the history of the Tummal sanctuary in Nippur.This chronicle is a Sumerian text on the history of the Tummal sanctuary in Nippur, where the goddess Ninlil was venerated, the divine spouse of…
Codex of Justinian (Librije, Zutphen) |
Constantinople, Hippodrome, Second Obelisk, inscription |
Contents of the Avesta
Avesta: the holy book of Zoroastrianism, the Iranian religion that was founded by the legendary Bactrian prophet Zarathustra.The following titles of the main parts of the Avesta were taken from the translation by James Darmesteter and L.H. Mills in Max Müller (ed.): Sacred Books…