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Book SynopsisIn Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, CHEN Fei conducts a full investigation into that king list, which records all the kings of Assyria and Babylonia in contemporary pairs from the 18th to the 7th century BC. The texts of all the exemplars of the Synchronistic King List are reconstructed anew by the existing studies and the author’s personal collations on their sources, and part of the text of the main exemplar is thus revised. The author also looks into the format of the Synchronistic King List and draws the conclusion that the Synchronistic King List was composed by Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, to support his Babylonian policy.
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 King Lists in Mesopotamia 2 The Synchronistic King List from Ashur 3 Research Review on the Synchronistic King List 4 Main Arguments of This Study 2 The Texts of the Synchronistic King List 1 A.117 2 KAV 10 3 KAV 13 4 KAV 9 5 KAV 11 6 KAV 12 7 A.118 3 The Format of the Synchronistic King List 1 Comparisons between the Synchronistic King List and the Other King Lists 2 Comparisons between A.117 and the Other Exemplars of the Synchronistic King List 3 The Arrangement of the Parallel Pairs of Kings in A.117 4 The Composition of the Synchronistic King List 1 The Date of the Synchronistic King List 2 The Beginning Entry of A.117 3 The Number of Kings Listed in A.117 4 The Use of “MIN” 5 The Meanings of “Ummânu” 6 The Implications of “King of Akkad” 5 The Purpose of the Synchronistic King List 1 Studies on the Purposes of Some Other King Lists 2 Previous Propositions on the Purpose of the Synchronistic King List 3 A Tentative Solution to the Purpose of the Synchronistic King List: the Babylonian Policy of Ashurbanipal 6 Conclusion Appendix I: A List of Assyrian Kings Appendix II: A List of Babylonian Kings Appendix III: The Selected Synchronistic Kings of Assyria and Babylonia in the Lacunae of A.117 Bibliography Plates
