• DOI:10.1086/690464
• Corpus ID: 222433095

The Figure of Nabopolassar in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Historiographic Tradition: BM 34793 and CUA 90

@article{DaRiva2017TheFO,
  title={The Figure of Nabopolassar in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Historiographic Tradition: BM 34793 and CUA 90},
  author={Roc{\'i}o Da Riva},
  journal={Journal of Near Eastern Studies},
  year={2017},
  volume={76},
  pages={75 - 92}
}

• Rocío Da Riva
• Published 1 April 2017
• History
• Journal of Near Eastern Studies

1 This paper is based on research conducted under the auspices of the ICREA Academia Research Prize of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Tablet BM 34793 and its photographs are published with the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum (London). I would like to thank M. Blanchard of the Museum of the Catholic University of America (Washington D.C.) for the information provided on CUA 90 (housed in the Semitics/ICOR [Institute of Christian Oriental Research] Library). This study is the extended version of the lecture “Il re Nabopolassar, la historiografia classica e la leggenda della distruzione di Assyria” presented at the Cycle of Conferences “Between East and West” organized by L. Milano at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (March 2015), and of the seminar offered in the framework of the Advanced Seminar on Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and Venice International University, 24.11.15–05.12.15), organized by E. Cingano and L. Milano. I am indebted to L. Milano and P. Corò for their encouragement to study this topic, to M. D. Casero for drawing my attention to the “Middle Assyrian Coronation Ritual,” and to P. Clancier, A. George, A. D. Gross, J. Monerie, J. C. Moreno, G. del Olmo, E. Robson, R. Rollinger, G. Rubio, D. Schwemer, J. Taylor, and J. Vidal for supplying me with information on several of the issues discussed in this paper. I would also like to thank the students who to the overthrow of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and to the formation and configuration of the Chaldean kingdom. A generally well-documented period in contemporary sources, it also had a long-lasting echo in later historiographic tradition.2 A brief review of the figure