The Dynastic Chronicle , "Chronicle 18" in Grayson's Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles or the "Babylonian Royal Chronicle" in Glassner’s Mesopotamian Chronicles , is a fragmentary ancient Mesopotamian text extant in at least four known copies. It is actually a bilingual text written in 6 columns, representing a continuation of the Sumerian king list tradition through to the 8th century BC and is an important source for the reconstruction of the historical narrative for certain periods poorly preserved elsewhere.
6-489: From the extant pieces, the work apparently begins with a list of nine antediluvian kings from five cities, so much resembling that of the Sumerian King List that Thorkild Jacobsen considered it a variant, and an account of the flood before proceeding on with that of the successive Babylonian dynasties. Due to the poor state of preservation of the center of the text, there are a great many gaps ( lacunae , or lacunas), and
12-518: The Assyrian Dictionary from 1955 to 1959, and as Professor of Social Institutions from 1946–1962. In 1962, Jacobsen became a professor of Assyriology at Harvard University , where he remained until his retirement in 1974. Beyond being an expert translator, he was a brilliant interpreter whose insights led to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the institutions and normative references of Sumerian and Akkadian culture. Jacobsen retired as
18-758: The University of Copenhagen and then came to the United States to study at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , where, in 1929, he received his Ph.D. He was a field Assyriologist for the Iraq Expedition of the Oriental Institute from 1929 to 1937) and in 1946 became director of the Oriental Institute. He served as Dean of the Humanities Division from 1948 to 1951, as an editor of
24-552: The Wayback Machine CDLI links to tablet fragments are provided in the table (above). Thorkild Jacobsen Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen ( Danish: [ˈtsʰɒːkʰil ˈjɑkʌpsn̩] ; 7 June 1904 – 2 May 1993) was a Danish historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. He was one of the foremost scholars on the ancient Near East . Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen received, in 1927, an M.A. from
30-442: The kings, leading some to propose that the legitimacy of rule determined the location of the burial. The following collation should be considered preliminary as small fragments continue to be identified, where 1A, 1B and 1C probably come from the same tablet although they do not actually join and others, such as 79-7-8, 333+ (copy 2 below) have their identification disputed. The Dynastic Chronicle at Livius Archived 2015-05-03 at
36-405: The narrative resumes with the post- Kassite king Simbar-Šipak ( c. 1025–1008 BC), the final discernible king being Erība-Marduk ( c. 769–761 BC) although it certainly would have continued, possibly until Nabû-šuma-iškun ( c. 761–748 BC), leading William W. Hallo to suggest it to be a composition during Nabû-nāṣir 's reign (747–732 BC). The text dwells on the final resting place of
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