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Kaššaya or Kashshaya was a princess of Babylon, daughter of Nebuchadnezzar II. Kaššaya was the eldest daughter of king Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC). She is documented as a historical person in cuneiform economic texts.
Nebuchadnezzar II was the eldest son and successor of Nabopolassar, founder of the Chaldean empire. He is known from cuneiform inscriptions, the Bible and later Jewish sources, and classical authors. His name, from the Akkadian Nabu-kudurri-uṣur, means “O Nabu, watch over my heir.”
- Nebuchadnezzar II is known as the greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia. He conquered Syria and Palestine and made Babylon a splendid...
- Jeremiah and Ezekiel describe Nebuchadnezzar II as God’s instrument against wrongdoers. He appears most prominently in the Book of Daniel, in which...
- There is no evidence for the story in the Book of Daniel of Nebuchadnezzar II’s seven years of madness. Nebuchadnezzar was credited with creating t...
Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform: Bēl-šar-uṣur, meaning "Bel, protect the king"; Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר Bēlšaʾṣṣar) was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus (r. 556–539 BC), the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Through his mother, he might have been a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar II (r.
Kaššaya, identified as the king's daughter ({kaš-šá-a dumu.mí lugal)2. The identity of Kassaya's father was revealed a few years later at the XIXe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Paris in 1971.
Nov 7, 2018 · Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 605/604-562 BCE) was the greatest King of ancient Babylon during the period of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 BCE), succeeding its founder, his father, Nabopolassar (r. 626-605 BCE).
- Joshua J. Mark
Nov 28, 2014 · The etymology of the bride’s name, Kaššaya, is unclear; yet, the name appears to have culturally Babylonian connotations, as can be concluded from the fact that it was borne by one of the daughters of Nebuchadnezzar II (Beaulieu 1998: 173–74, 181–201).
The book focuses on the Neo-Babylonian administrative letters dated to Nabopolassar and the first half of Nebuchadnezzar’s reigns (ca. 626–580 BCE); this is the formative phase of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
