Babylonian Chronicles
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The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history.
Early Years of Nebuchadnezzar chronicle, dated 590 BCE (ABC 05)
L. W. King’s line-art for a fragment (K. 8532) of the Dynastic Chronicle
Provenance
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Provenance is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide
Babylonian Chronicles
…Museum, having been acquired via antiquities dealers from unknown excavations undertaken during the 19th century. Only three of the chronicles are provenanced. The Chronicles provide the "master narrative" for large blocks of current Babylonian history…
Diana and Actaeon by Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for Philip II of Spain in the 1550s.
Sir William Petre, 1567: artist unknown. By the turn of the 17th century, this portrait was in the collection of John, 1st Baron Lumley, a fact indicated by the cartellino added to the painting at the upper right. It is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London
A stamp on a historic document, showing that it has passed through the hands of the Records Preservation Section of the British Records Association, a rescue service for archival material: the number indicates its earlier provenance