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New Babylonian Period (626–539)

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New Babylonian Period (626–539)

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New Babylonian Period (626–539) book

New Babylonian Period (626–539)

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New Babylonian Period (626–539) book

ByJack Finegan
BookArchaeological History of the Ancient Middle East

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1979
Imprint Routledge
Pages 11
eBook ISBN 9780429047404

ABSTRACT

The Babylonian king came back to take Jerusalem a second time, destroy it thoroughly, and carry its people and its blinded king into exile. As the Assyrian empire approached its end, two new empires were arising: in Babylonia that of the Chaldeans, in Iran that of the Medes and Persians. After Kandalanu, the aforementioned Uruk King List shows the Assyrian kings Sin-shumlishir and Sin-sharishkun ruling in Babylon for one year, then continues with Nabopolassar and the other kings of the Chaldean or New Babylonian Dynasty. Many of the inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II deal with his extensive building operations, and the extant remains of Babylon are for the most part from his period. The so-called Verse Account of Nabonidus, preserved on a damaged tablet in the British Museum, speaks of Cyrus in connection with the fall of Babylon and blames the Babylonian king for the happening. In the seventeenth regnal year of Nabonidus, Babylon fell to Cyrus the Persian.

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