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Babylonian domination in the Eastern Mediterranean (1)

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Army and warfare
09 Army and warfare
Provincial governors
08 Administrative systems
08.03 Provincial administration
08.03.01 Provincial governors
Relations with vassals
08 Administrative systems
08.06 Diplomacy and foreign relations
08.06.05 Relations with vassals
Royal inscriptions
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.11 Historiography
05.11.01 Royal inscriptions

Keywords
Berossus
Nebuchadnezzar

Period
3rd century BCE
1st century CE
Hellenistic Empires
Roman Empire

Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F8 (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.135-136):
Father of [Nabouchodonosoros], Nabopalassaros, heard that the satrap appointed for Egypt, Coele Syria, and Phoenicia had rebelled. Since he was not able to lead an army, as he was ill, he appointed his son Nabouchodonosoros, then in the prime of his life, as commander over part of his army and sent him against the rebel. Nabouchodonosoros drew up his forces and joined battle with the rebel. He conquered the rebel and brought the country under the rule of the Babylonians. It happened at this time that his father Nabopalassaros fell ill and died in Babylon, having ruled 21 years.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F8
Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.135-136

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 26	Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.
Verbrugghe and Wickersham 2000, 58	Verbrugghe, Gerald P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho. Introduced and Translated. Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 2000.

Amar Annus

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