Nebuchadnezzar II’s Prism (EŞ 7834): A New Edition

Riva, Rocío Da

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“…The figure of king Nebuchadnezzar II (Fig. 1) depicted to the right of the ziggurat is the only known representation of him from Mesopotamia; the only other images of him are worn rock reliefs in the Lebanon mountains (Da Riva 2012; 2013). On the stele he is shown in large scale standing to the right of the ziggurat on the border line between illustration and inscription; this line is partly broken as are the king's shoes.…”

Section: Inspection Of the Stele With The Etemenanki Zigguratmentioning

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The Tower of Babylon Stele Found in Babylon

Pedersén

2023

Iraq

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In the early 1990s the two fragments of black stone making up the Tower of Babylon stele with pictures of the ziggurat in Babylon and the king Nebuchadnezzar II were found in the large open trench from the German excavations of Amran in 1900. The findspot was about 20 m north of the Esagil temple in Babylon, but the level where it was discovered is not Neo-Babylonian but later, possibly Parthian. The archaeological and historical background of the stele is discussed, and the image of the Ziggurat on the stele is considered. After 28 years in the Schøyen Collection Oslo, the stele is now in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.

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Section: Inspection Of the Stele With The Etemenanki Zigguratmentioning

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The Tower of Babylon Stele Found in Babylon

Pedersén

2023

Iraq

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“…22 Nonetheless, some Neo-Babylonian royal sources are available to us. Such, for example, are rock-engraved public inscriptions that were placed in strategic locations as propaganda; see Da Riva 2008Riva , 2012aRiva , 2012bRiva , 2013aRiva , 2013b It is well known that Neo-Babylonian kings did not, for the most part, address political and military aspects in their public inscriptions. 24 Nonetheless, and despite the absence of direct, unmitigated Babylonian narrativization of their imperial policy, the inscriptions themselves are in fact evidence for Babylonian presence in the Levant; especially the rock inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar at e.g.…”

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The Neo-Babylonian Empire: The Imperial Periphery as Seen from the Centre

Levavi

2020

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History

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The paper examines the cuneiform evidence from sixth-century Babylonia (and beyond) for information on the form and aims of Neo-Babylonian imperial rule over its western provinces. While new texts, which hitherto have not been considered in this context, can be brought to bear on the issue, direct evidence from these provinces is still scarce. These documents will thus be supplemented by drawing on the rich information concerning state institutions and resource extraction in the imperial centre. It is argued that in the first half of the Neo-Babylonian period, until ca. 585 BCE, Babylonian imperial rule in the western periphery can be conceptualized primarily as a straightforward exploitative tributary regime. From about the mid-reign of Nebuchadnezzar onwards, however, there is a shift towards a more sustainable resource extraction through the creation of stable pockets of Babylonian presence in the periphery. This diachronic shift was meant to steady and organize the initial ad hoc Babylonian approach. These measures, however, did not prevail, and the chaotic years which followed the 43 years reign of Nebuchadnezzar illustrate the fragility of the relatively short-lived Babylonian imperial age.

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“…Nebuchadnezzar II's Prism (also referred to as the Istanbul Prism and, imprecisely [Da Riva ], as the Hofkalendar , “court calendar”) is exceptional both in its eight‐sided form and in its appending lists of royal and provincial officials to a conventional building inscription. As part of the record of Nebuchadnezzar's energetic restoration program, especially of Babylon's Old Palace, the prism's fragmentary lists of court officials and dignitaries who contributed financially to the project remain the best source of information about the administrative structure of the Neo‐Babylonian empire; the lists identify groups of palace officials, governors of provinces and tribal regions, and officials in charge of Babylonian cities (Da Riva ; Jursa ). The final section of the text records a list of unnamed kings of conquered Levantine cities, including Tyre (Ṣūru), Gaza (Ḫazzatu), Sidon (Ṣīdūnu), Arwad (Armada), and Ashdod (Ašdūdu).…”

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“…Although the kings were obligated to provide for the building program, there is no evidence that they had been deported to Babylonia (Vanderhooft ). Unfortunately, the king of Judah is not mentioned in the preserved sections of the text (Unger ; Vanderhooft ; Da Riva ).…”

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Cuneiform Sources for Judeans in Babylonia in the Neo‐Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods: An Overview

Pearce

2016

Religion Compass

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Cuneiform Sources for Judeans in Babylonia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods: An Overview Cuneiform documents written in Babylonia provide valuable evidence for the experience of the Judeans who came there during the Exile and who remained throughout the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods. Recent publications add significant data to the corpus previously known. The article describes and summarizes the relevant cuneiform evidence that informs an understanding of the Judeans' role in the social and economic history of Babylonia. Comparanda make clear that the Judeans occupied a place in the Babylonian economy and social order similar to that of other deportee populations in Babylonia.The Bible preserves historical narratives of, as well as prophetic and literary responses to, the Babylonian Exile and its aftermath; these, in turn, ref lect on events that catalyze the transformation of Judean deportees and their descendants into adherents of the nascent Jewish identity and faith. Scholars recognize the need to incorporate a wide variety of documentation in order to assess the full range of Judean experiences in the early Second Temple period. Recent studies introduce new perspectives to the analysis of archeological, historical, and textual evidence for economic and social history in Judah (see, e.g., Miller, Ben Zvi, and Knoppers 2015). With regard to the sources produced by the Babylonian Empire, scholars have had to contend, until recently, with a corpus of limited size and scope that constrained contextualizing social and economic experiences of Judeans there. The picture began to change with the publication of an administrative text written in 498 BCE ( Joannès and Lemaire 1999; Lemaire 2005) in āl-Yāḫūdu, "Judahtown." This previously unknown settlement in southern Babylonia offered concrete evidence for the existence of a settlement populated largely by Judeans nearly a century after the first exilic wave (597 BCE). In 2014, Pearce and Wunsch published another 100+ administrative and legal documents written in āl-Yāḫūdu and environs; editions of another collection of nearly equal size and contents are due to appear (Wunsch forthcoming). The date of the earliest āl-Yāḫūdu text now known, 572 BCE, confirms a Judean presence on the Babylonian landscape in the first generation following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. The latest āl-Yāḫūdu text dates to 477 BCE; thus there exists nearly continuous documentation of Judeans in Babylonia to and beyond the period of the construction of the second Temple. These sources (to which add Joannès and Lemaire 1996; Abraham 2005 Abraham -2006 enrich the investigation of social and economic forces that shaped the experiences of the exiles' descendants and that provided a foundation for an enduring Jewish community in Babylonia. The present study reviews and summarizes the Babylonian cuneiform evidence for Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods.Although they all refer to aspects of the topic under consideration here, the terms Neo-Babylonia...

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Nebuchadnezzar II’s Prism (EŞ 7834): A New Edition

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The Tower of Babylon Stele Found in Babylon

The Tower of Babylon Stele Found in Babylon

The Neo-Babylonian Empire: The Imperial Periphery as Seen from the Centre

Cuneiform Sources for Judeans in Babylonia in the Neo‐Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods: An Overview

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