3. Akītu Chronicle

(Grayson, Chronicles pp. 131–132 no. 16; Glassner, Chronicles pp. 212–215 no. 20)

24–27) After Kandalānu,^[282] 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.

Notes

[282] 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 presently-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

Jamie Novotny, '3. Akītu Chronicle', 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/akituchronicle/]

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