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ancient historian and Assyriologist, known for his works on Herodotus, the Persian-Achaemenid Empire
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ANGELIKA KELLNER
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Abstract
This paper sheds new light on the hotly debated question of which country Cyrus attacked in 547 BC, therefore dealing once more with the broken toponym of the Nabonidus Chronicle obv. ii 16. The reading of the sign(s) has been highly influenced by later classical sources, which place Croesus’ defeat against Cyrus somewhere around the corresponding year 547 BC. A collation has made it clear that no reliable reading can be inferred with absolute certainty. Instead of placing a cornerstone of Anatolian and early Persian-Teispid history exclusively on this ambiguous evidence, a new approach to this vexed topic is suggested. The contextualisation of the whole text passage leads to the conclusion that the region of Urartu depicts the most convincing hypothesis so far.
ROLLINGER,R. , KELLNER,A. and Hamdollahzadeh,M. (2022). ONCE MORE THE NABONIDUS CHRONICLE (BM 35382) AND CYRUS’ CAMPAIGN IN 547 BC. Studies of Ancient Iran, 2(1), 42-66.
MLA
ROLLINGER,R. , , KELLNER,A. , and Hamdollahzadeh,M. . "ONCE MORE THE NABONIDUS CHRONICLE (BM 35382) AND CYRUS’ CAMPAIGN IN 547 BC", Studies of Ancient Iran, 2, 1, 2022, 42-66.
HARVARD
ROLLINGER R., KELLNER A., Hamdollahzadeh M. (2022). 'ONCE MORE THE NABONIDUS CHRONICLE (BM 35382) AND CYRUS’ CAMPAIGN IN 547 BC', Studies of Ancient Iran, 2(1), pp. 42-66.
CHICAGO
R. ROLLINGER, A. KELLNER and M. Hamdollahzadeh, "ONCE MORE THE NABONIDUS CHRONICLE (BM 35382) AND CYRUS’ CAMPAIGN IN 547 BC," Studies of Ancient Iran, 2 1 (2022): 42-66,
VANCOUVER
ROLLINGER R., KELLNER A., Hamdollahzadeh M. ONCE MORE THE NABONIDUS CHRONICLE (BM 35382) AND CYRUS’ CAMPAIGN IN 547 BC. SAI, 2022; 2(1): 42-66.
