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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiershäuser, Frauke.
- Series:
- Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
- Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire ; v.2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amel-Marduk, King of Babylonia, -560 B.C.
- Amel-Marduk.
- Neriglissar, King of Babylonia, -556 B.C.
- Neriglissar.
- Nabonidus, King of Babylonia, active 6th century B.C.
- Nabonidus.
- Babylonia--History--Sources.
- Babylonia.
- Babylonia--Kings and rulers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages)
- Other Title:
- Royal Inscriptions of Amēl-Marduk
- Place of Publication:
- University Park : Penn State University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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 translations that have been carefully collated with the originals, this book will be the standard edition for scholars and students of Assyriology, the Neo-Babylonian dialect, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire for decades to come.
- Contents:
- Intro
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Amēl-Marduk
- Chapter 2: Neriglissar
- Chapter 3: Nabonidus
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781646021178
- 1646021177
- OCLC:
- 1300917741
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