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Nabopolassar's building inscriptions
Nabopolassar's building inscriptions are the commemorative texts of Nabopolassar, the Neo-Babylonian king who ruled Babylon from 626 to 605 BC, recording temples, city walls, and canals.
Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle
The Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle, also known as ABC 5 or the Jerusalem Chronicle, is a Babylonian tablet recording Nebuchadnezzar II's early reign, 605 to 595 BCE.
Nebuchadnezzar Cylinder
The Nebuchadnezzar Cylinder, also known as the East India House Inscription, is a large limestone display tablet from Babylon bearing a first-person building inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II, now in the British Museum.
Nur-Sin family
The Nur-Sin family was a private Babylonian commercial family of the late Neo-Babylonian period, known from 223 cuneiform contracts and letters dated 603 to 507 BC.
Palm and Vine
Palm and Vine is an Akkadian disputation poem in which the date palm, king of trees, and the vine debate their superiority; only 54 middle lines survive, with no verdict.
Post-imperial Assyria
Post-imperial Assyria is the Assyrian heartland of northern Mesopotamia in the roughly eight and a half centuries after the Neo-Assyrian Empire fell in 609 BC.
Prayer of Nabonidus
The Prayer of Nabonidus (4Q242) is an Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll from Qumran Cave 4 in which the Babylonian king Nabonidus is healed of a seven-year disease by a Jewish exorcist.
Ptolemaic Canon
The Ptolemaic Canon, also called the Canon of Kings, is a list of rulers and reign lengths compiled by Ptolemy, running from 747 BC to his own time.
Rab-mag
Rab-mag is a Babylonian court title, Hebraized from Akkadian rab mugi, a high military official borne by Nergal-sharezer at the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
Religious Chronicle
The Religious Chronicle is a Babylonian chronicle text, designated ABC 17, a late copy of earlier records found in the Esagil temple library at Babylon in the 1870s.
Striding Lion
Striding Lion is a molded glazed-brick relief of a striding lion that lined Babylon's Processional Way, made under Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BC.
Uruk King List
The Uruk King List, also known as King List 5, is a Late Babylonian tablet from Uruk, Iraq, recording the reign lengths of kings from Kandalanu to Seleucus II Callinicus.
Verse Account of Nabonidus
The Verse Account of Nabonidus is a fragmentary Akkadian polemical poem vilifying Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, composed after Cyrus's conquest of the city in 539 BC.
Wadi Brisa inscriptions
The Wadi Brisa inscriptions, also written Wadi Brisah, are twin rock-cut inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II in the Lebanon mountains near Hermel, recording his cedar-cutting expedition.