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The royal inscriptions of Amēl-Marduk (561-560 BC), Neriglissar (559-556 BC), and Nabonidus (555-539 BC), kings of Babylon by Amel-Marduk (King of Babylonia); Neriglissar (King of Babylonia); Professor Jamie Novotny; Nabonidus (King of Babylonia); Frauke Weiershäuser; Jamie R. Novotny; Giulia Lentini is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Amēl-Marduk (561–560 BC), Neriglissar (559–556 BC), and Nabonidus (555–539 BC) were the last native kings of Babylon. In this modern scholarly edition of the complete extant corpus of royal inscriptions from each of their reigns, Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny provide updated and reliable editions of the texts.The kings of the Neo-Babylonian Empire left hundreds of official inscriptions on objects such as clay cylinders, bricks, paving stones, vases, and stelae. These writings, ranging from lengthy narratives enumerating the deeds of a monarch to labels identifying a ruler as the builder of a given structure, supplement and inform our understanding of the empire. Beginning with a historical introduction to the reigns of these three kings and the corpus of inscriptions, Weiershäuser and Novotny then present each text with an introduction, a photograph of the inscribed object, the Akkadian text in a newly collated transliteration, an English translation, catalogue data, commentary, and an updated bibliography. Additionally, Weiershäuser and Novotny provide new translations of several related Akkadian texts and chronicles.Featuring meticulous yet readable transliterations and t
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- Author
- Amel-Marduk (King of Babylonia); Neriglissar (King of Babylonia); Professor Jamie Novotny; Nabonidus (King of Babylonia); Frauke Weiershäuser; Jamie R. Novotny; Giulia Lentini
- Publisher
- Eisenbrauns
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781646021178
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
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