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
King's line art for the Eclectic Chronicle, BM 27859, a post-Kassite chronicle of Mesopotamian history
Babylonian Chronicles
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The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history.
Nabonassar
…rule. His reign saw the beginning of a new era characterized by the systematic maintenance of chronologically precise historical records. Both the Babylonian Chronicle and the Ptolemaic Canon begin with his accession to the throne. He was contemporary with the Assyrian kings Aššur-nirarī V (755–745 BC) and Tiglath-Pileser…
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