Mesopotamian chronicles

BCHP 1, the Alexander Chronicle, obverse. Photo Bert van der Spek.

BCHP 1: Alexander Chronicle (obverse; **)

The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE. In this table, you can find an overview of all chronicles and the period they refer to. The abbreviations are:

ABC	A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975)
CM	Jean-Jacques Glassner, Chroniques Mésopotamiennes (1993) (translated as Mesopotamian Chronicles, 2004)
BCHP	I. Finkel & R.J. van der Spek, Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period (forthcoming)

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ABC	CM	BCHP		25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
18	3		Dynastic chronicle
	6		Royal chronicle of Lagaš
18	38		Weidner chronicle
20	39-41		Early kings chronicle
	7		Tummal chronicle
	48		Uruk chronicle of the kings of Ur
	8		Assyrian Eponym List (2nd millennium)
23	50		Market prices chronicle
21	10		Synchronistic history
22	45		Chronicle P
	11		Enlil-nirari chronicle
	12		Arik-den-ili chronicle
	46		Walker chronicle
	13		Tukulti-Ninurta chronicle
	14		Aššur-reša-iši chronicle
	15		Tiglath-pileser I chronicle
24	47		Eclectic chronicle
17	51		Religious chronicle
	9		Assyrian Eponym List (1st millennium)
	52		Nabu-šuma-iškun
1	16		From Nabu-Nasir to Šamaš-šuma-ukin
1B	17		Period from Nabu-Nasir to Esarhaddon
14	18		Esarhaddon chronicle
15	19		Šamaš-šuma-ukin chronicle
16	20		Akitu chronicle
2	21		Early Years of Nabopolassar chronicle
3	22		Fall of Nineveh chronicle
4	23		Late years of Nabopolassar chronicle
5	24		Early Years of Nebuchadnezzar chronicle
6	25		Third year of Neriglissar chronicle
7	26		Nabonidus chronicle
	53		Chronographic document on Nabonidus
9	28		Artaxerxes III chronicle
8	29	1	Alexander chronicle
		2	Alexander and Arabia chronicle
10	30	3	Diadochi chronicle
		4	Alexander and Artaxerxes
11	32	5	Antiochus I and Sin temple chronicle
		6	Ruin of Esagila chronicle
13A	36	7	Antiochus, Bactria, and India chronicle
		8	Juniper garden chronicle
12	33	9	End of Seleucus I chronicle
13	34	10	Seleucid Accessions chronicle
		11	Invasion of Ptolemy III chronicle
13B	35	12	Seleucus III chronicle
		13	Politai chronicle
		14	Greek Community chronicle
		15	Gold theft chronicle
		16	Document on land and tithes
	37	17	Judicial chronicle
		18	Bagayasha chronicle
		19	Chronicle concerning an Arsacid king
		20	Euphrates chronicle

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