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Al-Yahudu tablets
The Al-Yahudu tablets, also known as the Al-Yahudu archive, are Babylonian cuneiform legal documents from a village of Judean deportees in southern Mesopotamia, written between 572 and 477 BCE.
Assyrian dynasty of Babylon
The Assyrian dynasty of Babylon is the period when Assyrian kings and their appointees held the Babylonian throne, from Tiglath-pileser III in 729 BC until Nabopolassar's accession in 626 BC.
Astronomical Diaries
The Astronomical Diaries, also known as the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries, are Akkadian cuneiform records kept at Babylon from 652 BCE, recording celestial phenomena, prices, and events.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 16)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 16), commonly called the Akitu Chronicle, is a Babylonian historiographical text recording the 652–648 BC war between Šamaš-šuma-ukin of Babylon and his brother Aššurbanipal of Assyria.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 3)
The Babylonian Chronicle, also known as the Fall of Nineveh Chronicle, is a Babylonian tablet recording Nabopolassar's campaigns of 616–609 BC, including the capture of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 4)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 4), or Chronicle Concerning the Late Years of Nabopolassar, is a cuneiform tablet in the British Museum recording Nabopolassar's wars, 608-605 BC.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 8)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 8), known as BCHP 1 or the Alexander Chronicle, is a fragmentary cuneiform tablet in the British Museum covering Darius III and Alexander the Great.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 9)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 9), also called the Artaxerxes III Chronicle, is a fragmentary Late Babylonian tablet recording prisoners taken from Sidon in 345 BC.
Babylonian Chronicles
The Babylonian Chronicles are Akkadian cuneiform tablets recording Babylonian history year by year, mostly held in the British Museum, from the eighth century BCE to the Hellenistic period.
Babylonian Map of the World
The Babylonian Map of the World, or Imago Mundi, is a clay tablet in the British Museum bearing the oldest known world map, centered on Babylon.
Bit-Amukkani
Bit-Amukkani was a large Chaldean tribe of southern Babylonia between Nippur and Uruk, with its capital at Šapīya, where Mukin-zeri was besieged by Tiglath-pileser III in 731 BC.
Building inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II
The building inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II are Akkadian royal texts, mostly on clay cylinders and bricks, recording his temples, walls, and canals in Babylon and other Mesopotamian cities.
Catalogue of Texts and Authors
The Catalogue of Texts and Authors is a Mesopotamian scholarly catalog that links Akkadian literary works to named authors with the phrase "from the mouth of" (ša pî).
Chaldean dynasty
The Chaldean dynasty, also called the Neo-Babylonian dynasty, was the last dynasty of independent Babylonia, founded by Nabopolassar in 626 BC and ended by Cyrus the Great in 539 BC.
Eanna archive
The Eanna archive is a corpus of Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the Ishtar temple at Uruk, spanning the late seventh to early fifth centuries BC.
East India House Inscription
The East India House Inscription is a large limestone building inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II, carved at Babylon and now kept in the British Museum.
Ebabbar archive
The Ebabbar archive is the tablet archive of the Ebabbar temple of Šamaš at Sippar, spanning Neo-Babylonian to early Persian rule and the largest of its kind.
Egibi Archive
The Egibi Archive, or Egibi family archive, is a collection of about 1,700 cuneiform tablets from Babylon recording one family's affairs across five generations, from about 606 to 484 BCE.
Ekitušgarza
Ekitušgarza, meaning "House, Abode of the Regulations," was a temple of the goddess Bēlet-Eanna in Babylon's Tuba district, rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II and not yet identified by excavation.
Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum
Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, a collection of labeled antiquities assembled around 530 BCE at Ur in southern Mesopotamia, is considered the earliest known museum, curated by Ennigaldi-Nanna, daughter of King Nabonidus.
Graeco-Babyloniaca
The Graeco-Babyloniaca are about 16 or 17 clay tablets, mostly of the late first millennium BC, transliterating Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform texts into Greek letters.
Harran Stelae of Nabonidus
The Harran Stelae of Nabonidus, also called the Harran Inscriptions of Nabonidus, are three stelae bearing Akkadian royal inscriptions of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon (r. 556–539 BC).
Jehoiachin Rations Tablets
Neo-Babylonian tablets from Babylon's South Palace recording monthly oil rations to the exiled Judean king Jehoiachin, his five sons, and other Judeans around 592 BC.
Jerusalem Chronicle
The Jerusalem Chronicle is a Neo-Babylonian cuneiform tablet, BM 21946, recording year by year the campaigns of Nebuchadnezzar II, including the only cuneiform account of Jerusalem's capture in 597 BC.
Kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina II
The Kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina II is a Babylonian black-stone stele recording a royal land grant to Bel-ahhe-eriba in the king's seventh year, around 715 BC, held in Berlin.
Murashu Archive
The Murashu Archive, also called the Murašû Archive, is a group of Babylonian legal tablets recording a family firm's business at Nippur from 454 to 404 BC.
Nabonassar Chronicle (ABC 1)
The Nabonassar Chronicle, also known as the Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 1), is a Babylonian chronicle narrating year by year how Babylon, supported by Elam, resisted Assyria from 747 to 668 BC.
Nabonidus Chronicle
The Nabonidus Chronicle is a Babylonian cuneiform tablet in the British Museum narrating Nabonidus's reign and Cyrus the Great's conquest of Babylon in 539 BC.
Nabonidus Cylinders
Nabonidus Cylinders are inscribed clay foundation cylinders buried by Nabonidus, king of Babylon (r. 556–539 BC), in temples he restored at Sippar, Ur, and Larsa, recording digs to earlier kings' deposits.
Nabopolassar Chronicle
The Nabopolassar Chronicle is a Babylonian annalistic text on British Museum tablets covering Nabopolassar's reign (626–605 BC), including the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC.