Chronicles

Three Mesopotamian chronicles provide useful information both on events of the reigns of Assyria's last two rulers Sîn-šarra-iškun and Aššur-uballiṭ II and on the order of those events.^[261] The standard edition of Mesopotamian chronicles is the edition of A.K. Grayson (Grayson, Chronicles), but note also the more-recent edition by J.-J. Glassner (Glassner, Chronicles) and the ongoing work by I. Finkel and R.J. van der Spek (see https://www.livius.org/sources/about/mesopotamian-chronicles/ [last accessed January 25, 2023]). For the convenience of the user of this volume, it has been thought useful to present translations of the relevant passages here; these translations are adapted from the aforementioned works.

Notes

[261] For translations of the four Mesopotamian chronicles that provide information on events of the reigns of Ashurbanipal and Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, see Novotny and Jeffers, RINAP 5/1 pp. 33–36.

Jamie Novotny

Jamie Novotny, 'Chronicles', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2023 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/rinap53introduction/datingandchronology/chronicles/]

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