Person
Nabonidus
last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire
The last Neo-Babylonian king, deposed when Cyrus II took Babylon in 539 BCE. His own inscriptions and the hostile Marduk-centred tradition preserve sharply different accounts of his reign.
- Date
- r. 556–539 BCE
- Other names
- Nabû-naʾid
- Groups
- Rulers beyond Persia
- Record status
- Secure identification
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Attested in
- The Nabonidus Chronicle in Nabonidus
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