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Labashi-Marduk was the son and heir of Neriglissar ( r. 560–556 BC), the fourth king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Labashi-Marduk's mother was a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar II ( r. 605–562 BC), [2] the empire's second and most powerful king. [3] Three daughters of Nebuchadnezzar are known; Kashshaya, Innin-etirat and Ba'u-asitu, but no ...
The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets.It deals primarily with the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, covers the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and ends with the start of the reign of Cyrus's son Cambyses II, spanning a period ...
e. Edom ( / ˈiːdəm /; [2] [3] Edomite: 𐤀𐤃𐤌 ʾDM; Hebrew: אֱדוֹם ʾĔḏōm, lit.: "red"; Akkadian: 𒌑𒁺𒈪 Údumi, 𒌑𒁺𒈬 Údumu; [4] Ancient Egyptian: jdwmꜥ) [5] was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east. [6 ...
The Book of Daniel describes the fall of Babylon on which Jos. Antiq. X. xi. 2 relied. 2. Family. Nabonidus was the only son of Nabu-balatṩu-iqbi, a “wise prince and governor,” at Harran and of Adda-guppi’, an influential votary of the gods Sin, Ningal, Nusgu and Sardarunna, who died in 547 b.c., aged 104, and was given a state funeral ...
The British Museum makes the following notes on the Cylinder of Nabonidus. "Nabonidus came to the throne after the assassination of two of the successors of Nebuchadnezzar" This lines up with the Biblical account - Dan 5:30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. The kingdom was them conquered by Darius.
Nitocris of Babylon (c. 550 BC) is an otherwise unknown queen regnant [1] of Babylon described by Herodotus in his Histories. According to Histories of Herodotus, among sovereigns of Babylon two were women, Semiramis and Nitocris. [2] Nitocris is credited by Herodotus with various building projects in Babylon.
The Chronicle Concerning the Reign of Nabonidus (ABC 7) is one of the most important historiographical texts from ancient Babylonia. It deals not just with the reign of Nabonidus (r.556-539 BCE), but also with the rise of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, the demise of the Babylonian Empire, and the founding of the Achaemenid Empire.
