Nabonassar biography of william hill

8th-century BC king of Babylon

This article is about the 8th-century BC king. For the 7th-century BC religious official, see Nabonassar (7th century BC).

Nabû-nāṣir was the king of Babylon from 747 to 734 BC.

He deposed a foreign Chaldean usurper named Nabu-shuma-ishkun, bringing native rule back to Babylon after twenty-three years of Chaldean rule. His reign saw the beginning of a new era characterized by the systematic maintenance of chronologically precise historical records.

Both the Babylonian Chronicle^{[i 1]} and the Ptolemaic Canon begin with his accession to the throne. He was contemporary with the Assyrian kings Aššur-nirarī V (755–745 BC) and Tiglath-Pileser III, the latter under whom he became a vassal, and the Elamite kings Humban-Tahrah I (reigned until 743 BC) and Humban-Nikaš I (742–717 BC).^{[i 1]: 9–10}

Attestations and possible vituperative chronicle

Nothing is known of his provenance or origin, although it ap