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Nebuchadnezzar II (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
09 Army and warfare

 		Keywords
Babylon
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 1.139):
He generously adorned the temple of Bel and the other temples from the war-booty. He strengthened the old city and added a new outer city. He arranged it so that besiegers would no longer be able to divert the river against the city by surrounding the inner city with three circuits of walls and the outer city with three also. The walls of the inner city were made of baked brick and bitumen and those of the outer city of brick alone.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F8
Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.139

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 27Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.
Verbrugghe and Wickersham 2000, 58Verbrugghe, 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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