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Babylonia = part of Assyria (1)

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Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.02 Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
Measures of length
08 Administrative systems
08.05 Administrative standards
08.05.02 Measures of length

Keywords
Babylon

Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 6.30:
Babylon, which is the capital of the Chaldean races, once held an outstanding celebrity among the cities of the whole of the world, and in consequence of this the remaining part of Mesopotamia and Assyria has received the name of Babylonia. It has two walls with a circuit of 60 miles, each wall being 200 ft. high and 50 ft. wide (the Assyrian foot measures 3 inches more than ours).

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Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 6.30

Simo Parpola

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