Volume 1

A history of Babylonia and Assyria / [R.W. Rogers] ; rev., largely rewritten, and illustrated.

  • Robert William Rogers
Date:
[1915], ©1915
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Credit: A history of Babylonia and Assyria / [R.W. Rogers] ; rev., largely rewritten, and illustrated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a few months are not named at all. For pur¬ poses of comparison the Canon of Ptolemy, with the Babylonian names, may here be set down. The Babylonian Canon of Rulers in Claudius Ptolem^us.* Length of Reign. Greek Forms of Names. Babylonian Forms of Names. Years B. C. 14 Nafiovaocdgov Nabu-nasir 747 2 'NaSiov (N abu)-nadin-(zir) 733 5 Xivi^TjQog Kai ITwpov Ukinzir. Pulu 731 6 AXovXaiov Ululai 726 12 MagdoneiiTTcidov Marduk-apal-iddin 721 5 ’AQKedvov Sharrukin 709 2 d(3aGLXevTOV npdyrov 704 3 BrjXiPov Bel-ibni 702 6 ’ AnapavaSiov Ashur-nadin-sbum 699 1 'P7]yep7]Xov Nergal-ushezib 693 4 MearjaifiopSaKov Mushezib-Marduk 692 8 ’A(3aGiXevrov devregov 688 13 ' Aaapidivov Ashur-akh-iddin 680 20 I^aoodov^Lvov Sbamash-shum-ukin 667 22 KiViXavadavov Kandalanu 647 21 N a(doTToXaaodQov Nabu-apal-usur 625 43 Xa(^olloXaaodQOV Nabu-kudurri-usur 604 2 AXXoapov-ddiiov Amel-Marduk 561 4 XripLKaaoXaGGdpov N ergal-shar-usur 559 17 Xaidovadiov Nabu-na’id 555 This single brief list far exceeds in value all that remains of Berossos, and indeed all the chronological material in all the other Greek sources. C.—Egyptian Inscriptions From the Egyptian inscriptions comparatively little of value has been secured for the chro- 1 For this list see primarily Table Chronolog'^ue des Regnes . . . des C. Ptolemee, etc., par M. I’Abbe Halma, Ouvres de Ptolemee, tom. iii, Paris, 1819, p. 8, and compare Georgius Syncellus, ed. Dindorf, Bonn, 1829, vol. i, pp. 390, ff., and Keil. Bibl,. ii, pp. 290, 291. Winckler, Keilinschriftliches Textbuch zum Alien T’estament, p. 68.