• Dynastic Chronicle (ABC 18) (translation [1]) (another version of Column 5 [2])
• Weidner Chronicle (ABC 19) (translation [3])
• Chronicle of the Kassite and Isin Dynasties, also known as Walker's Chronicle (called "Chronicle 25", but not available in ABC) (translation [4])
• Chronicle of Early Kings (ABC 20) (translation [5])
• Synchronistic History (ABC 21) (one translation [6] and another translation [7])
• Chronicle P (ABC 22) (translation [8] and another translation [9])
• Chronicle of the Market Prices (ABC 23) (translation [10])
• Eclectic Chronicle (ABC 24) (translation [11])
• Religious Chronicle (ABC 17) (translation [12])
• Nabonassar to Shamash-shum-ukin Chronicle (ABC 1) (translation [13])
• Esarhaddon Chronicle (ABC 14) (translation [14])
• Shamash-shuma-ukin Chronicle (ABC 15) (translation [15]) (another translation [16])
• Akitu Chronicle (ABC 16) (translation [17])
• Early Years of Nabopolassar Chronicle (ABC 2) (translation [18])
• Fall of Nineveh Chronicle (ABC 3) (translation [19])
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• Late Reign of Nabopolassar Chronicle (ABC 4) (translation [20])
• First years of Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle, also known as Jerusalem Chronicle (ABC 5) (translation [21])
• Third year of Neriglissar Chronicle (ABC 6) (translation [22])
• Nabonidus Chronicle (ABC 7) (text and translation [23])
• Artaxerxes III Chronicle (ABC 9) (translation [24])
• Alexander Chronicle (ABC 8 = BCHP 1) (text and translation [25])
• Alexander and Arabia Chronicle (BCHP 2) (text and translation [26])
• Diadochi Chronicle (ABC 10 = BCHP 3) (text and translation [27])
• Arses and Alexander fragment (BCHP 4) (translation [28])
• Antiochus and Sin Temple Chronicle (ABC 11 = BCHP 5) (text and translation [29])
• Ruin of Esagila Chronicle (BCHP 6) (text and translation [30])
• Antiochus, Bactria, and India Chronicle (ABC 13A = BCHP 7) (text and translation [31])
• Juniper garden Chronicle (BCHP 8) (text and translation [32])
• End of Seleucus I Chronicle (ABC 12 = BCHP 9) (text and translation [33])
• Seleucid Accessions Chronicle (ABC 13 = BCHP 10) (text and translation [34])
• Invasion of Ptolemy III Chronicle (BCHP 11) (text and translation [35])
• Seleucus III Chronicle (ABC 13B = BCHP 12) (text and translation [36])
• Politai Chronicle (BCHP 13) (text and translation [37])
• Greek Community Chronicle (BCHP 14) (text and translation [38])
• Gold Theft Chronicle (BCHP 15) (text and translation [39])
• Document on land and tithes (BCHP 16) (text and translation [40])
• Judicial Chronicle (BCHP 17) (text and translation [41])
• Bagayasha Chronicle (BCHP 18)
• Chronicle Concerning an Arsacid King (BCHP 19) (text and translation [42])
• Euphrates Chronicle (BCHP 20) (text and translation [43])
Literature
• Leo Oppenheim's translation of the Nabonidus Chronicle can be found in J. B. Pritchard (ed.) Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (= ANET; 1950, 1955, 1969).
• The standard edition is A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (= ABC; 1975)
• A translation of Chronicle 25, discovered after the publication of ABC, was published by C.B.F. Walker
"Babylonian Chronicle 25: A Chronicle of the Kassite and Isin Dynasties", in G. van Driel e.a. (eds.): Zikir Šumim: Assyriological Studies Presented to F.R. Kraus on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (= Fs. Kraus;
1982).
• John Brinkman revises Grayson's reading of ABC 1 [13] in: "The Babylonian Chronicle revisited" in T. Abusch, J.
Huehnergard, P. Steinkeller (eds.): Lingering over words. Studies in ancient Near Eastern literature in honor of William L. Moran (1990 Atlanta)
• Fragments of the chronicles that are relevant to the study of the Bible, can be found in William W. Hallo (ed.), The Context of Scripture, volume 1 (2003 Leiden and Boston). This book also contains the Weidner Chronicle.
• A recent update of ABC is Jean-Jacques Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles (2004, French version 1993)
• An even more recent update of ABC is Amélie Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period (Routledge, 2007)
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• The publication of I. Finkel & R. J. van der Spek, Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period (= BCHP) has been announced.
External links
• Mesopotamian Chronicles [44]: all Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles
• Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles, and King Lists [45]
• Literature [46]: Aa list of relevant secondary literature
• Synchronistic King List, Assyrian King List [47]: translations and bibliographies
• Cuneiform sources for the history of Hellenistic Babylonia.Edition and Analysis [48]: information about the BCHP Project
References
[1] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc18/dynastic1.html
[2] http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/farfarer2001/chronicles/chronicle_18.htm&date=2009-10-25+
22:03:48
[3] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc19/weidner.html
[4] http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/farfarer2001/chronicles/walkers_chronicle.html&
date=2009-10-25+22:04:01
[5] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc20/kings.html [6] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc21/synchronistic1.html
[7] http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/farfarer2001/chronicles/synchronistic_history.html%23_edn1&
date=2009-10-25+22:03:58
[8] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc22/p.html
[9] http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/farfarer2001/chronicles/chronicle_p.html&date=2009-10-25+
22:03:55
[10] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc23/prices.html [11] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc24/eclectic.html
[12] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc17/religious_chronicle1.html [13] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc1/abc1_col_i.html
[14] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc14/esarhaddon.html [15] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc15/samas-suma-ukin.html
[16] http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/farfarer2001/chronicles/chronicle_15.htm&date=2009-10-25+
22:03:46
[17] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc16/akitu.html
[18] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc2/early-nabopolassar.html [19] http://www.livius.org/ne-nn/nineveh/nineveh02.html
[20] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc4/late-nabopolassar.html [21] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc5/jerusalem.html [22] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc6/neriglissar.html [23] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc7/abc7_nabonidus1.html [24] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/abc9/artaxerxes.html
[25] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-alexander/alexander_01.html [26] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-arabia/arabia_01.html [27] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-diadochi/diadochi_01.html [28] http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_t56.html
[29] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-antiochus_sin/antiochus_sin_01.html [30] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-ruin_esagila/ruin_esagila_01.html [31] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-india/antiochus_india_01.html [32] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-juniper/juniper_01.html [33] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-end_seleucus/seleucus_01.html [34] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-dynastic/dynastic_01.html
[35] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-ptolemy_iii/bchp_ptolemy_iii_01.html [36] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-seleucus_iii/seleucus_iii_01.html [37] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-politai/politai_1.html
[38] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-greeks/greeks_01.html
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[39] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-gold/theft_1.html [40] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-tithes/tithes_1.html [41] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-jud/jud_1.html
[42] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-arsacid/arsacid_king_1.html [43] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-euphrates/euphrates_1.html [44] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/chron00.html
[45] http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/farfarer2001/chronicles/chronicle_index.html&date=2009-10-25+
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[46] http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/chron_literature.html [47] http://utenti.lycos.it/homegape/mesopot/histor/index.html
[48] http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoek/OND1297087/
Balag
This article is about a Sumerian literature genre. For the Polish city see: Bałąg
Balag (meaning harper in Sumerian), is a Sumer literature genre. These are hymns for Gods presented by priests. It was usually before ersemmas. It is similar to other Sumer hymns, though its text is usually repetitive. End of these poems also have some reference to this method. “This prayer should be repeated. (Literally turn back to its original place)” It is the first known example of liturgical repetition. It was a vital genre from the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC to the cuneiform script. These texts were copied in the Seleucid Empire and in the Parthian Empire also.
Sources
• (Hungarian) Világirodalmi lexikon I. kötet, A-Cal, ISBN 963-05-4399-0
Balbale
Balbale (from Sumarian bal—change—); is a Sumer form of poem; a kind of changing songs, parallelism. Most part of Tammuz and Enkimdu (an adamanduga) consists of changes like this. There’s a reference to balbale in the colophon of the poem. Though it also may refer to the dialogue form of the writing. All hymns signed as balbalaes (Hymns to Ninurta, Hymns for Shu-Sin) contain changing repetitions. It is the most important feature of balbale.
Dialogues referred as balbale consist of changing and unchanged periods also.
Sources
• (Hungarian) Világirodalmi lexikon I. kötet, A-Cal, ISBN 963-05-4399-0