Dynastic Chronicle
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The Dynastic Chronicle, "Chronicle 18" in Grayson's Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles or the "Babylonian Royal Chronicle" in Glassner’s Mesopotamian Chronicles, is a fragmentary ancient Mesopotamian
L. W. King’s line-art for a fragment (K. 8532) of the Dynastic Chronicle
Nabonassar
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Nabû-nāṣir was the king of Babylon from 747 to 734 BC. He deposed a foreign Chaldean usurper named Nabu-shuma-ishkun, bringing native rule back to Babylon after twenty-three years of Chaldean rule. Hi
Dynastic Chronicle
…it certainly would have continued, possibly until Nabû-šuma-iškun (c. 761–748 BC), leading William W. Hallo to suggest it to be a composition during Nabû-nāṣir's reign (747–732 BC). The text dwells on the final resting place of the kings, leading some to propose that the legitimacy of rule determined the…
King's line art for the Eclectic Chronicle, BM 27859, a post-Kassite chronicle of Mesopotamian history