http://www.livius.org/sources/about/mesopotamian-chronicles/
From the home page:
ABC 5: Chronicle Concerning the Early Years of Nebuchadnezzar II ("Jerusalem Chronicle")
In the table below, yellow indicates a text written in, pink stands for Assyrian, blue for Babylonian.
There are no scholarly editions of the non-BCHP-chronicles on this
page, nor will there ever be, because that would be a copyright
infringement. For the original (usually Akkadian) text and commentaries,
you must therefore consult Grayson's or Glassner's book. The
translations offered here are free adaptations from ABC and CM; the
spelling of personal names has been harmonized, variants have been
ignored, explanatory notes have been added, uncertain readings have not
been indicated. In short, these pages are no subsitute for ABC or CM.
From the home page:
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles
are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they
contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the
second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the
first century BCE (cf. this table).
Introduction
- links to translations of all known chronicles; they are meant as a first introduction and for ready reference, but it is advisable not to quote them without consulting a printed edition, because many readings are still uncertain;
- new editions of the chronicles of the Seleucid and Parthian period; several of them have not been published before.
- A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975 = ABC);
- Jean-Jacques Glassner, Chroniques Mésopotamiennes (1993) (translated as Mesopotamian Chronicles, 2004) (= CM);
- I. Finkel & R.J. van der Spek, Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period (= BCHP).
In the table below, yellow indicates a text written in, pink stands for Assyrian, blue for Babylonian.
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| CM 1+2 | Sumerian King List |
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| ABC 18 | CM 3 | Dynastic chronicle |
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| CM 5 | Assyrian King List |
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| CM 6 | Royal chronicle of Lagaš |
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| ABC 19 | CM 38 | Weidner chronicle |
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| ABC 20 | CM 39-41 | Early kings chronicle |
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| CM 7 | Tummal chronicle |
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| CM 48 | Uruk chronicle concerning the kings of Ur |
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| CM 8 | Assyrian Eponym List (second millennium) |
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| ABC 23 | CM 50 | Market prices chronicle |
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| ABC 21 | CM 10 | Synchronistic history |
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| ABC 22 | CM 45 | Chronicle P |
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| CM 11 | Enlil-nirari chronicle |
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| CM 12 | Arik-den-ili chronicle |
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| CM 46 | Walker chronicle |
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| CM 13 | Tukulti-Ninurta chronicle |
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| CM 14 | Aššur-reša-iši chronicle |
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| CM 15 | Tiglath-pileser I chronicle |
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| ABC 24 | CM 47 | Eclectic chronicle |
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| ABC 17 | CM 51 | Religious chronicle |
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| CM 9 | Assyrian Eponym List (first millennium) |
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| CM 52 | Chronographic document concerning Nabu-šuma-iškun |
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| ABC 1 | CM 16 | Period from Nabu-Nasir to Šamaš-šuma-ukin |
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| ABC 1B | CM 17 | Period from Nabu-Nasir to Esarhaddon |
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| ABC 14 | CM 18 | Esarhaddon chronicle |
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| ABC 15 | CM 19 | Šamaš-šuma-ukin chronicle |
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| ABC 16 | CM 20 | Akitu chronicle |
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| ABC 2 | CM 21 | Early Years of Nabopolassar chronicle |
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| ABC 3 | CM 22 | Fall of Nineveh chronicle |
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| ABC 4 | CM 23 | Late years of Nabopolassar chronicle |
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| ABC 5 | CM 24 | Early Years of Nebuchadnezzar chronicle |
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| ABC 6 | CM 25 | Third year of Neriglissar chronicle |
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| ABC 7 | CM 26 | Nabonidus chronicle | Scholarly edition |
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| CM 53 | Chronographic document concerning Nabonidus |
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| Cyrus Cylinder |
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| ABC 9 | CM 28 | Artaxerxes III chronicle |
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| ABC 8 | CM 29 | BCHP 1 | Alexander chronicle |
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| BCHP 2 | Alexander and Arabia chronicle |
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| ABC 10 | CM 30 | BCHP 3 | Diadochi chronicle |
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| CM 31 | BCHP 4 | Alexander and Artaxerxes Fragment |
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| ABC 11 | CM 32 | BCHP 5 | Antiochus I and Sin temple chronicle |
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| BCHP 6 | Ruin of Esagila chronicle |
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| ABC 13A | CM 36 | BCHP 7 | Antiochus, Bactria, and India chronicle |
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| BCHP 8 | Juniper garden chronicle |
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| ABC 12 | CM 33 | BCHP 9 | End of Seleucus I chronicle |
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| ABC 13 | CM 34 | BCHP 10 | Seleucid Accessions chronicle |
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| BCHP 11 | Invasion of Ptolemy III chronicle |
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| ABC 13B | CM 35 | BCHP 12 | Seleucus III chronicle |
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| BCHP 13 | Politai chronicle |
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| BCHP 14 | Greek Community chronicle |
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| BCHP 15 | Gold theft chronicle |
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| BCHP 16 | Document on land and tithes |
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| CM 37 | BCHP 17 | Judicial chronicle |
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| BCHP 18A/B | Chronogr. doc. conc. Bagayasha B/A | Scholarly edition | |||
| BCHP 18C | Chronogr. doc. conc. Bagayasha C | Scholarly edition | |||
| BCHP 19 | Chronicle concerning an Arsacid king |
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| BCHP 20 | Euphrates chronicle |
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| CM 42 | Kings of the Sealand |
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| CM 43 | Samsuiluna fragment |
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| CM 44 | Another Samsuiluna fragment |
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| CM 27 | Fragment of a Neo-Babylonian chronicle |
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| Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar |
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| Dynastic Prophecy |
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| Antiochus Cylinder |
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| CM 4 | Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period |
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| Uruk King List |
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Astronomical diaries |
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| Diary concerning Artaxerxes II Mnemon |
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| Diary conc. Gaugamela |
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| Diary conc. the second year of Philip Arridaeus |
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| Diary conc. the 7th year of Alexander IV |
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| Diary conc. SE 66 |
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| Diary fragment on Demetrius and Arabia |
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| Diary fragment on "messengers of the politai" |
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| Arsacid diary fragment on politai |
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This page was created in 2004; last modified on 25 August 2015.
