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A COMMON SOURCE FOR THE LATE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLES DEALING WITH THE EIGHTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES.(Critical Essay)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2000; GERBER, MANUEL; 8851 words
; ... until 730. From that time to the end of Nabopolassar's reign a constant ratio of [sim]7 ... equivalents of Babylonian dates before Nabopolassar. Therefore, in the first section the ... section. I. INTERCALATION PRACTICE BEFORE NABOPOLASSAR Before Nabopolassar the Julian equivalents ...
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Babylon revisited: archaeology and philology in harness.
Antiquity; 12/1/1993; George, A.R.; 4880 words
; ... dynasty (625-539 BC), particularly Nabopolassar, Nebuchad-nezzar II and Nabonidus ... Gate, just short of the quay wall of Nabopolassar. This wall was abutted on the river side by a second quay wall, constructed by Nabopolassar's successor, Nebuchadnezzar II. The ...
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THE SUN-GOD TABLET OF NABÛ-APLA-IDDINA REVISITED
Journal of Cuneiform Studies; 1/1/2004; Woods, Christopher E; 27319 words
; ... only came to him later with the exciting news of the tablet.29 More telling, however, is ... text has traditionally been considered a Nabopolassar royal inscription-one of the few attributable ... Joanns reads the RN as Nabapla-iddina and not Nabopolassar. Indeed, a collation of the mold kindly ...
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Media and its discontents.(Continuity of Empire: Assyria, Media, Persia)(Critical essay)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2005; Waters, Matthew; 11295 words
; ... material invites (indeed necessitates) speculation. Reade accentuates the change in terminology in the Nabopolassar chronicle from Medes to umman-manda (p. 153). This latter term stigmatized the Medes as barbarians and ... How do we reconcile the divergent views relayed by Nabonidus' own inscriptions with the account of ...
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(book reviews)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1997; Pearce, Laurie E.; 1732 words
; ... the term gazizu, shearer (of sheep or goats). The few references in the dictionaries to shearers all date to the reign of Nabopolassar. If, as the photograph (difficult to read in this spot) and the author suggest, the king's name is to be read Nabonidus ...
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SOME COMMENTS ON THE EBABBARA IN THE NEO-BABYLONIAN PERIOD.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2000; MACGINNIS, JOHN; 4193 words
; ... 188-89). BM 77834 (p. 153), which dates to the reign of Nabopolassar, is a work schedule of the [bar{e}]rib b[bar{i}]ti organized ... S}]E[check{S}] 8 [LUGAL TIN].[TIR.sup.ki] In BM 79201.9 (Nabopolassar year 14) there is an apparent attestation of a [check{s}ang ...
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The Cup of Fury: the preferred title of Caroline Gordon's None Shall Look Back.(Critical essay)
The Mississippi Quarterly; 6/22/2005; Young, Walton; 3484 words
; ... the oppressed rather than the oppressor. Nineveh was destroyed in 612 B.C. by the Medes and Babylonians under Cyaxares and Nabopolassar. (2) Another problem, moreover, with the title None Shall Look Back arises. Because both Nineveh and the South are victims ...
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The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical, and Literary Introduction
Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/2006; Van Seters, John; 2596 words
; ... seventeen inscriptions that deal with temple building in the time of Nabonidus; for numerous additional examples in the time of Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar, see S. Langdon, Die Neubabylonischen Knigsinschriften [VAB 4; Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1912].) Another consideration ...
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A Mesopotamian proverb and its Biblical reverberations.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1994; Greenspahn, Frederick E.; 4216 words
; ... 7, V.29-36; and the inscriptions provided in Stephen Langdon, Building Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, part I (Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar) (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1905), 50-51, 62-63, and 72-73. Cf. the Erra Epic's description of the mesu tree ...
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Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie, vol. 9, fascicle 1-2: Nab-Nanse & Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie, vol. 9, fascicle 3-4: [Nanse-.sup.d]NIM.NIM. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2002; Beckman, Gary; 788 words
; ... some of the highlights of these three fascicles: Neo-Babylonian history is well represented by articles on Nabonassar and Nabopolassar (J. A. Brinkman), Nebuchadnezzar II (M. P. Streck), and Nabonidus (M. Dandamayev). F. A. M. Wiggermann and Gb. Uehlinger ...
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