Walker Chronicle
For a very brief introduction to the literary genre of chronicles, go here. The Walker Chronicle was published by C.B.F. Walker in G. van Driel e.a. (eds.): Zikir Šumim: Assyriological Studies Presented to F.R. Kraus on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (1982). More information can be found in Jean-Jacques Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles (Atlanta, 2004).
Translation
| 1 Tukulti-Ninurta, king of Assyria,[1] took Babylon and Sippar and controlled Karduniaš. |
| 2 Adad-šuma-usur [2; ...] restored [...] and rebuilt the wall of Nippur. |
| 3 [...] he firmly established. Enlil-kudurri-usur, king of Assyria,[3] |
| 4 [...] Adad-šuma-usur mustered his troops, attacked, and defeated him. |
| 5 The officers of Assyria seized Enlil-kudurri-usur, their lord, and gave him to Adad-šuma-usur, |
| 6 [...] the people of Karduniaš who had fled to Assyria |
| 7 surrendered to Adad-šuma-usur. Adad-šuma-usur, to conquer Babylon, |
| 8 marched [...] Somebody, the son of a nobody, whose name is not mentioned, [4] [ascended to the throne]. |
| 9 Hearing this unexpected news, Adad-šuma-usur raised a revolt, and, enjoying eternal divine protection, he entered Babylon and |
| 10 he became ruler of the land and established himself on his royal throne. |
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| 11 [...] they killed him. |
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| 12 [...] he attacked and removed the king of Mari in a rebellion. |
| 13 [...] he controlled Mari. |
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| 14 [...] fear of Elam fell on him and |
| 15 [...] on the bank of the Euphrates he built a city and |
| 16 [...] of Sumer and Akkad he brought within it, |
| 17 [...] was cut off and the people became poor in deficiency and famine. |
| 18 [...] they killed him in a rebellion. |
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| 19 Enlil-nadin-apli,[5] son of Nebuchadnezzar, marched on Aššur to conquer it. |
| 20 Marduk-nadin-ahhe,[6] brother of Nebuchadnezzar, and the nobles rebelled against him and |
| 21 Enlil-nadin-apli returned to his land his city. They killed him with the sword. |
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| 22 Marduk-nadin-apli and the nobles rebelled against Enlil-nadin-apli |
| 23 he returned |
| 24 [...] and defeated him. |
| 25 He attacked and he had him killed with the sword. |
| 26 Tiglath-pileser,[7] king of Assyria attacked and [...] |
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| 27 Marduk-šapik-zeri,[8] son of Marduk-nadin-ahhe, rebuilt the wall of Babylon. |
| 28 [...] kings of the lands he defeated. During his reign, the people of the land enjoyed abundance and prosperity. |
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| 29 Adad-apla-iddina,[9] descendant of Itti-Marduk-balatu, the Arameans and an usurper king rebelled against him and |
| 30 desecrated all the sanctuaries of the land. Akkad, Der, Dur-Anki (Nippur), |
| 31 Sippar and Parsa (Dur-Kurigalzu) they demolished. |
| 32 The Suteans attacked and took home the booty of Sumer and Akkad. |
| 33 He repeatedly visited the shrines of Marduk and appeased the heart of Bêl and the son of Bêl. |
| 34 [….] he fully restored their cults. |
Note 1:
King of Assyria between 1233 and 1197.
Note 2:
A successful Babylonian king (1206-1177) who defeated Tukulti-Ninurta
of Assyria.
Note 3:
King from 1186 to 1182.
Note 4:
A rebellion during the reign of Adad-šuma-usur. A 'son of a nobody'
was a ruler without notable ancestors. The addition in italics is hypothetical.
Note 5:
Enlil-nadin-apli was king of Babylonia from 1103 to 1100. His father
had ruled the country from 1125 to 1104.
Note 6:
King from 1099 to 1082.
Note 7:
Tiglath-pileser I was king from 1114 to 1076.
Note 8:
King of Babylonia from 1081 to 1069.
Note 9:
Adad-apla-iddina was king of Babylonia from 1068 to 1047; Itti-Marduk-balatu
from 1139 to 1132. The section is identical to several lines from the Eclectic
Chronicle.
Babylonian Chronicles
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