Synchronist history (Assyria)
The Synchronist History (also Chronicle 21) reports on the relations between Assyria and Babylonia between 1400 BC. BC and 800 BC It begins with the contract of the Assyrian king Aššur-bel-nišešu with the Babylonian king Kara-indaš and ends with events during the reign of Adad-nīrārī III.
Lore
The preserved copies all come from the library of Aššurbanipal . However, the text shows that it was written on a stele - it is either a copy or the original. About a third of the text has not been preserved.
The chronicle was written from the Assyrian point of view, because at the end of the text the wish is expressed that " the praise of Aššur may be praised for distant days and that the crimes of Sumer and Akkad (= Babylonia ) should be reported in every quarter (of the world) " .
See also
literature
- Albert Kirk Grayson : Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles . Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 2000, ISBN 1-575-06049-3 , pp. 157-170.
- Jean-Jacques Glassner: Chroniques mésopotamiennes . Les belles lettres, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-251-33918-3 , pp. 170-174.
Web links
- Synchronistic history (English)