Babylonia

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Babylonia Assyria

• Part III

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THE CHALDEANS

• Empires in Transition

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Bit-Yakin
Okay, so we need a little translation NABU-AP
AL-USUR Nabopolassar (625-605
B.C.) NABU-KUDURRI-USUR II
Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562
B.C.) NABU-NAID Nabonidus (556-539 B.C.)
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Stamped brick of Nabopolassar of Nebuchadnezzar
II
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And you think thatYOU are the centerof the
world???
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Excerpts from the BabylonianChronicles the
obverse (above)recording the battle of
Carchemish in 605 B.C. thereverse (below)
recording the capture of Jerusalem in 598 B.C.
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Youve Got to See This Pergamum Museum,
Berlin
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Ishtar Gate (frontal)
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Ishtar Gate (oblique-L)
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The Processional Way into Nebuchadnezzar IIs
Babylon
The Pergamum Museum,
Berlin
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Mesopotamia under Nabonidus

556-539 B.C.
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Nabonidus Cylinder Loads of Datain a time of
transition
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Nabonidus at Work, Doing his Duty to the Gods