Nabopolassar (r. 625–605 BC)

CBS 09090

CBS 09090, a three-column clay cylinder of Nabopolassar bearing an inscription recording the rebuilding of Babylon's ziggurat Etemenanki. Courtesy of the Penn Museum, object no. B9090.

Nabopolassar, the founder of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and father of the more famous Nebuchadnezzar II, carried out several building activities in some of Babylonia's most important cult centers, Babylon, Borsippa, and Sippar. From textual sources, mostly royal inscriptions written in Akkadian, this ruler is known to have sponsored construction on the following:

Nabopolassar also dug a canal from the Euphrates River to Sippar.

Jamie Novotny & Niclas Dannehl

Jamie Novotny & Niclas Dannehl, 'Nabopolassar (r. 625–605 BC)', Babylonian Temples and Monumental Architecture online (BTMAo), The BTMAo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, [http://oracc.org/btmao/StructuresbyBuilder/Neo-BabylonianEmpire/Nabopolassar/]

 
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