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12 Assyrian Identity
12 Assyrian Identity
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
08 Administrative systems
Keywords
Babylonia
inscriptions
Period
Achaemenid Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Channel
Neo-Babylonian texts
Summary
Assyrian scribal traditions persist in Neo-Babylonian and Persian royal inscriptions.
Text
Some expressions occurring in Harran inscriptions of Nabonidus do not appear anywhere else in the Neo-Babylonian texts but are characteristic of Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions, particularly those of Assurbanipal’s time. The Cyrus Cylinder was also written by writers from Nabonidus’ chancellary, who retained their positions under Cyrus. The literary form of Cyrus Cylinder has close parallels with the inscriptions of Assurbanipal rather than Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions, exposing ideological and religious purposes.
Bibliography
Green 1992, 52
Green, Tamara. The City of the Moon God, Religious Traditions of Harran. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 114. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1992.
Zawadzki 1988, 118
Zawadzki, Stefan. The Fall of Assyria and Median-Persian Relations in Light of the Nabopolassar Chronicle. Poznan: Adam Michiewicz University Press 1988.
