The preferred clay medium of late Neo-Assyrian kings, with their verbose descriptions of their deeds on and off the battlefield, was multi-faceted prisms (ranging from five to ten columns of texts). Neo-Babylonian kings, as far as we can tell, rarely utilized them. At present, only one inscription of Nebuchadnezzar is known to have been written on this medium: Nbk. 11, the so-called Hofkalender ("court calendar"). A special/unique feature of this text is the long list of Babylonian dignitaries, provincial governors, and vassal/client kings. That passage takes up a significant portion of the composition, comprising almost half of the preserved text. As one expects with a Neo-Babylonian inscription, the principal contents of the text are concerned with construction in Babylon, as well as other cultic matters, specifically the confirmation of regular offerings. The main building report records Nebuchadnezzar's work on the South Palace, the old royal residence at Babylon.
Jamie Novotny & Frauke Weiershäuser
Jamie Novotny & Frauke Weiershäuser, ' Clay Prisms (only Nebuchadnezzar II) ', RIBo, Babylon 7: The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [/ribo/babylon7/RINBE11Introduction/SurveyoftheInscribedObjects/ClayPrismsonlyNebuchadnezzarII/]