Statements of Time-Spans by Babylonian and Assyrian Kings and Mesopotamian Chronology

Na’aman, Nadav

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“…Na'aman (1984: 119) argues that: (i) The starting point of a Distanzangabe is the beginning of the reign of the first king mentioned in the Distanzangabe (with the possible exception of the Distanzangaben recorded by Shalmaneser I). (ii) The endpoint of a Distanzangabe is a specific regnal year of the last king (the issuer of the inscription), the actual year in which the reported activity took place.…”

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“… 2 Cf. Na'aman 1984: 116: “We must conclude that the canonical Babylonian and Assyrian kinglists contained all the chronological data necessary for the calculation of the time-spans of past events and that subsequent to their compilation they were the main sources for all the statements of Distanzangaben , as far as the scribes were concerned. In other words, these statements are of no value for the establishment of an exact chronological scheme or for the confirmation of a given chronological system.…”

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“… 28 Weidner 1945–1951: 92; Hachmann 1977: 123; Na'aman 1984: 119; Gasche et al . 1998: 57 n. 257; Eder 2004: 202; Pruzsinszky 2006b: 75–76; Janssen 2009: 76 n. 6; Pruzsinszky 2009: 143; Barjamovic, Hertel and Larsen 2012: 26; Janssen 2012: 13; Bloch 2014: 208; Janssen 2016: 79, 82.…”

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“… 45 Poebel 1942: 295; Weidner 1945–1951: 91; Poebel 1942: 296; Cornelius 1958: 102 n. 12; Lewy 1971: 750; Hachmann 1977: 124; Na'aman 1984: 119; Gasche et al . 1998: 57–58 (as a possibility); Boese 2012: 21 (on pp.…”

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“… 50 Na'aman 1984: 117; Pruzsinszky 2002–2005: 26; Pruzsinszky 2006b: 75; Pruzsinszky 2009: 138. The work on the temple was already commissioned in the accession year of Tiglath-pileser I ( ina šur-ru lugal - ti-ia , RIMA 2 A.0.87.1, vii 71).…”

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THE ASSYRIAN DISTANZANGABEN IN RELATION TO THE REGNAL YEARS RECORDED IN THE ASSYRIAN KING LIST

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Several so-called Distanzangaben (lit. “designations of distance”), found in Assyrian inscriptions, record time spans between events (mainly building activities) of Assyrian rulers. Such chronological data have mostly been studied as entities (for purposes of absolute chronology), and only rarely with regard to their composition. While some of the Distanzangaben can be explained as mere summations of the regnal years recorded in the Assyrian King List, others remain enigmatic. The present article attempts to trace the composition of every Distanzangabe. For those compiled by Tiglath-pileser I and Esarhaddon, ideological purposes seem to be implied. The one compiled by Sennacherib sheds light on the chronology of Tiglath-pileser I's campaigns.

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„Ḫarbašipak“, „Tiptakzi“ und die Chronologie der älteren Kassitenzeit

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2008

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Temple Dedication and Construction Texts of the Ancient Near East with Elapsed Years: Implications for Long Duration Chronologies

Kennedy

2024

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Ancient texts dedicating or commemorating temples that can be associated with archaeological remains such as architecture and inscriptions, along with identifiable kings who built or commemorated those temples and the specification of the elapsed number of years from a past event, are known from Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant over the span of several centuries. Although the texts originate from differing religious, cultural, and geographic contexts and were recorded on various mediums, the similarity in content, style, and objective indicates a shared tradition and allows the grouping of these texts into a distinctive category. These temple construction and dedication texts document a king or kings involved in the construction, reconstruction, or remembrance of a temple, a deity with whom the temple was connected, the location of the temple, and the specific number of years elapsed between construction or dedication and another significant cultural or religious event. Known examples come from Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia, and Israel, spanning the 13th to the 2nd centuries BC, along with a text from ancient Rome that was likely influenced by this practice. Because the kings named are known from various historical documents and inscriptions, archaeological remains related to the temples have often been recovered; since the construction or dedication texts record elapsed years in reference to another event, these texts can be analyzed in regard to their viability as sources for the history and chronology of the ancient Near East in the context of religion and official records of the state. Investigation of these texts alongside king lists and temples reveals that temple construction and dedication texts of the ancient Near East that included mention of elapsed years provide valuable, detailed, and accurate information that can be used to identify the existence of ancient temples in time, corroborate periods of kingship or other important events, and contribute to understanding a method of historical chronology used by the ancients.

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Statements of Time-Spans by Babylonian and Assyrian Kings and Mesopotamian Chronology

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THE ASSYRIAN DISTANZANGABEN IN RELATION TO THE REGNAL YEARS RECORDED IN THE ASSYRIAN KING LIST

THE ASSYRIAN DISTANZANGABEN IN RELATION TO THE REGNAL YEARS RECORDED IN THE ASSYRIAN KING LIST

„Ḫarbašipak“, „Tiptakzi“ und die Chronologie der älteren Kassitenzeit

Temple Dedication and Construction Texts of the Ancient Near East with Elapsed Years: Implications for Long Duration Chronologies

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