Citation
Ouysook, P. (2021). A Study of the Composition of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Royal Inscriptions (Doctoral thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.77295
Abstract
This dissertation is an analysis of the composition of the royal
inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BCE). It is divided into
seven chapters. The first two chapters are devoted to the identification
of the compositional principles. In the first chapter, we begin with
the composition of the extant twenty-nine multi-sectional inscriptions
of Nebuchadnezzar. In the second chapter, we narrow down to the
composition of the ten longest inscriptions in the corpus. The length of
these inscriptions ranges from around 2,000 to 400 words. In chapters 3
to 7, we explore different issues that analysing the composition of the
inscriptions can illuminate, using the ten longest inscriptions as
research sample. Chapter 3 contains our attempt to identify the
diachronic profile of some inscriptions in the sample group, in order to
create a model that will help establish the dating for the corpus that
lacks explicit historical information. In chapter 4, we identify a
structuring principle in the building lists, which are a major component
among the longer inscriptions in the extant corpus. This principle is
characterised by the arrangement of the temples according to their
location along the Euphrates. In chapter 5, we look at how the
inscriptions associated with the same building type share a common
composition. In particular, we will see that the five inscriptions in
the sample group, which are dedicated to the temples, all share a very
similar basic composition. In chapter 6, we explore the characterisation
of Nebuchadnezzar in the epithet lists and the prayer. We will
demonstrate that the portrayals of NBK correspond to each subgroup of
inscriptions that we identify in chapter 5. We will also see that NBK’s
different selfportrayals in these inscriptions mirror the political
divisions in his empire. In chapter 7, we look at NBK’s interaction with
the Babylonian inscriptional tradition. We will compare his
inscriptions with the Babylonian inscriptions of Ashurbanipal and
Esarhaddon, as well as the inscriptions of Hammurabi. As we shall see,
NBK’s inscriptions are much closer to the inscriptions around his period
in terms of structural formulation. This conclusion offers another side
to the argument, which purports that the Neo-Babylonian inscriptions
contain elements that are similar to the inscriptions from the
Old-Babylonian or Old Akkadian period.
Keywords
Babylonian, Archaeology, Nebuchadnezzar, Inscriptions, Babylon,
Mesopotamia, royal inscriptions, Akkadian, Neo-Babylonian,
Neo-Babylonian Empire
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