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of his excavations was to establish the ancient foundations in order to properly refound the temples, and Nabonidus' program for the various gods appears to have conflicted at times with the findings of his scholars. The Reign of Nabonidus is the first monograph-length study of Nabonidus since Nabonidus and Belshazzar: A Study of the Closing Events of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, by Raymond P. Dougherty (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1929). Beaulieu uses the same major sources as Dougherty but employs more contemporary approaches to historiography to coax information from an additional wealth of building inscriptions, documents and letters. Systematically sorting and studying these materials yields information concerning variations in religious policy, changes in official appointments, the movement of cult objects, sacrificial offerings and even "gods" within the empire, the state of the economy and the deployment of the army, all of which serve as clues to the history of the king's reign. A distinctive feature of the reign of Nabonidus is a period of 10 years of "double" kingship in which the king's son, Belshazzar, serves as coregent in Babylon while the king remains with t

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Review by: Garth Alford

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press (ISSN 0006-0895)

Published

1992

Language

EN

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Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)