Update May 17, 1999

This is the first file of a group of files on the time covered by the Babylonian kings from Nabonidus back till Nabonassar. First a backwards survey of the part of the Canon Basileion involved, dated in my way.

name beginning of reign   end of reign  
  TPQ TAQ TPQ TAQ
         
Nabonidus autumn -554 autumn -551 spring -540 sspring -535
Neriglissar spring -560 spring -557 autumn -554 autumn -551
Awel-Marduk autumn -561 autumn -555 spring -560 spring -557
Nebuchadrezzar II spring -604 spring -603 autumn -561 autumn -555
Nabopolassar spring -625 autumn -623 spring -604 autumn -603
Kandalanu autumn -647 spring -645 spring -625 autumn -623
Shamash-shuma-ukin spring -667 autumn -665 autumn -647 autumn -665
Esarhaddon autumn -680 spring -678 spring -667 autumn -665
Sennacherib spring -689 spring -685 autumn -681 autumn -677
Mushezib-Marduk spring -693 spring -689 spring -689 spring -685
Ashur-Nadin-Shumi spring -699 spring -696 spring -693 spring -689
Bel-Ibni spring -702 spring -701 spring -702 spring -701
Sennacherib spring -702 spring -701 spring -701 spring -698
Sargon II spring -709 spring -706 autumn -705 autumn -701
Marduk - Baladan spring -722 autumn -720 spring -709 spring -706
Shalmaneser V / Ululayu spring -727 spring -726 spring -722 autumn -720
Mukin-zeri - Tiglath Pileser autumn -732 autumn -730 spring -726 spring -725
Nabonassar spring -746 spring -743 autumn -732 autumn -730

For the last five kings on the top I possiboy will process Jonsson[1] , handling the Neo-Babylonian period, which he defines as the time between Nabopolassar and Nabonidus. Gelb[2] is starting the period in -1150, and is ending it somewhere in the 4th century.

General sources survey. For a convenient overview of the data, it is better to go first to the Assyrian eponymlists .
[1] Jonsson, Carl Olof, The Gentile Times Reconsidered, Commentary Press, Atlanta, 1998 (3), ISBN: 0-914675-06-0
[2] Gelb et al, I.J., The Assyrian Dictionary, Oriental Institute, Chicago, 1956-, cited at Jonsson 1998 p. 90 note 1.
[3] See Parker-Dubberstein 1956 (2) p. 3sq.
[4] For a convenient overview of the figures given by the ancient historians, see Dougherty, Raymond Philip, Nabonidus and Belshazzar, 8-10, Yale University, New Haven, 1929 and Sack, Ronald H., Images of Nebuchadrezzar, 31-44, Susquehanna university, Selinsgrove, 1991 and Associated University, London/Toronto, 1991, mentioned at Jonsson, Carl Olof, The Gentile Times Reconsidered, Commentary Press, p. 91, Atlanta, 1998
[5] See Schnabel, Berossos und die Babylonisch-Hellenistische Literatur, Teubner, Berlin/Leipzig, 1923, for a translation with an extensive discussion of the existing fragments at classical, Jewish and Christian writers, and Burstein, Stanley Mayer, The Babyloniaca of Berossus, Sources for the Ancient Near East (SMANE), Undena, Malibu, Cal., 1978 Stanley Mayer, Teh
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