Neo-Babylonian
Rule returned to Babylon in 626 BC, when Nabopolassar seized the throne. The empire fell in 539 BC when king Cyrus II of Persia overthrew Nabonidus, the last native ruler of Babylon.
Description:
After the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, led by a coalition of Babylonians, Medes, Scythians, and Cimmerians, the Neo-Babylonian Empire flourished. The seat of the empire was transferred from Nineveh to Babylonia, and economics, agriculture, building projects, arts, and sciences flourished. The period was a renaissance of Sumerian/Akkadian traditions. Temples dominated the urban social structure, legal system, and social hierarchy. The period ended during the reign of Nabonidus, when Babylon was captured by Cyrus the Great.
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Middle Chronology: 625-539 BCE
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1560A | (none) | 1924,0920.243 | (none) | [A-B] Two fragments of large baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus: containing parts of column I & II of the inscription on cylinder K.1688 in the British Museum. These fragments possibly belong to that cylinder. |
| 7010 | (none) | 1927,0527.276 | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Two handles one on either side of shoulder. Type LXVII. =P.217. |
| 6754A | (none) | 1927,0527.92 | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper graves. Both shaped with flat rims and two handles at each end. Covered over by wooden lid let down into ground by ropes. Corbelled burnt brick box built over them. Traces of rope remain on one handle of (A). Neo-Babylonian [Neo-Babylonian has been crossed out]. Entered in [illegible, maybe tab or lab] and no graves P.1, 2. E. |
| 2747 | (none) | 1927,1003.254 | (none) | Paste statuette. Blue glass paste, much worn. Servant in attitude of devotion. Head and trunk only. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3187 | (none) | 1927,1003.257 | (none) | Fragment of blue glass paste. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8837B | (none) | 1928,1009.9 | (none) | Clay cylinder. Fragments giving bottom half of the 2 columns ? dedication to Sin-Nannar Style of Nebuchonosor. H.C.71. |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.638 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.675 | (none) | (none) |
| 17348 | (none) | 1931,1010.246 | (none) | Beads. Glass paste. Possibly the Horus Eye? Discoid and barrel beads also animals head pendants - flat. [A-C] 3 animals of type (A). [D] 1 animal of type (B). Each has a raised border of blue glass paste on one side and a pellet of blue glass paste for the eyes. [E] One Puzuzu head [E]. [drawing] |
| 90709 | (none) | 1931,1010.586 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1932,1008.286 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1935,0113.428 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1963,0716.1 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1970,0416.1 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 2000,0831.3 | (none) | (none) |
Related Terms
Ubaid - Uruk - Jemdat Nasr - Early Dynastic / Sumerian - Akkadian Dynasty - Guti/Post Akkadian - Ur III - Old Babylonian - Middle Assyrian - Kassite - Neo-Assyrian - Achaemenid Empire (Persian) - Seleucid - Parthian