(Grayson, Chronicles pp. 131–132 no. 16; Glassner, Chronicles pp. 212–215 no. 20; Glassner, Chroniques2 pp. 277–279 no. 42; RINAP 5/3 p. 46)
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24–27) After Kandalānu,[[155]] in the accession year of Nabopolassar (626): There were insurrections in Assyria and Akkad. Hostilities (and) warfare were constant. The god Nabû did not go (and) the god Bēl did not come out.
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155 The phrase arki Kandalānu, "after Kandalānu," is also attested as a date formula for two Babylonian economic documents written after the death of that king of Babylon. There is one attested tablet that is posthumously dated to Kandalānu's 22nd year (626); BM 40039 (Wiseman, Chronicles pp. 89–90 and pls. XVIII–XIX) was written on "Araḫsamna (VIII), 2nd day, year twenty-two, after Kandalānu, king of Babylon." This tablet was inscribed twenty-four days before Nabopolassar ascended the throne in Babylon (26-VIII-626).
Jamie Novotny & Frauke Weiershäuser
Jamie Novotny & Frauke Weiershäuser, '5. Akitu Chronicle', RIBo, Babylon 7: The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [/ribo/babylon7/RINBE11Introduction/DatingandChronology/Chronicles/AkituChronicle/]