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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 ...
Curator's comments S. Smith, BHT, 98-123, pl XI-XIV; Grayson, TCS 5, Chronicle 7; George, BiOr 53 (1996) 379 (new copy of col. iii 24-28)
The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely-defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history. They represent one of the first steps in the development of ancient historiography. The Babylonian Chronicles are written in Babylonian cuneiform and date from the reign of Nabonassar until the Parthian Period.
With the discovery and publication of a heavily eroded rock relief of Nabonidus at as-Silaʿ in the mountains of southern Jordan, it is confirmed that Nabonidus campaigned through the region of Edom.
- Bradley L. Crowell
- 2007
Nabonidus, who had fled to Borsippa, re-entered the city and was taken prisoner. According to one tradition, he died in exile in Carmania (Jos. Apion I. 20). Seventeen days later Cyrus himself entered the city and took over the throne.
Lines 12-14 describe how Nabonidus led one division of the Babylonian army and did battle with Cyrus first at Opis on the Tigris River and then at Sippar, nearer to Babylon.
The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets.
