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Adad-guppi. Adad-guppi / ˈædəˌɡɒpi / ( Babylonian cuneiform: Adad-gûppîʾ; [1] c. 648-544 BC), also known as Addagoppe, was a devotee of the moon god Sîn in the northern Assyrian city of Harran, and the mother of King Nabonidus (ruled 556–539 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. [2]
Adad-guppi. Nabonidus ( Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-naʾid, [2] [3] meaning "May Nabu be exalted" [3] or "Nabu is praised") [4] was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC. Nabonidus was the last native ruler of ancient Mesopotamia, [5] [6 ...
- 25 May 556 BC – 13 October 539 BC
- Adad-guppi
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According to her inscriptions, Adad-guppi was born in Ashurbanipal's twentieth year as king. At the time of her birth, Harran had been a major Assyrian stronghold and when the Neo-Assyrian Empire fell in 609 BC, Harran was the capital of its government in exile. On account of her claims in regards to Nabonidus being of Sargonid (Ashurbanipal's ...
Adad-guppi. 649–547 b.c.e. Queen Mother. Sources. The Secret to Longevity. In her funeral stele, Adad-guppi claimed to have lived 104 years. During that time, she witnessed the fall of the Assyrian Empire and the establishment of a Babylonian Empire by Nabopolassar (625–605 b.c.e.) and Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 b.c.e.).
Ashurbanipal's lineage may have survived the fall of Assyria in 612–609. The mother of the last Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, Adad-guppi, was from Harran and had Assyrian ancestry. According to her own inscriptions, Adad-guppi was born in the 20th year of Ashurbanipal's reign (648, as years were counted from the king's first full year).
- 669–631 BC
- Libbali-sharrat
May 21, 2019 · Adad-guppi’s autobiography records the blessings she received from the moon deity such as living to the age of 104 with a sound mind and body.
A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a conical hat and gripping a staff as he pays homage to the crescent moon of the god Sin, the ...
