Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles

The kings of Assyria and Babylonia kept terse, dated records of battles, accessions, rebellions and the comings and goings of gods, and these chronicles remain some of the most important sources for the history of ancient Mesopotamia. A. Kirk Grayson gathers them here in a single scholarly edition, setting out each text in transliteration and English translation, with commentary alongside.

The volume opens with studies that explain what the chronicles are and how they relate to other historical sources, then moves to the texts themselves, supported by indexes, line drawings and plates. Long regarded as a model of its kind, it is a sound foundation for students of Akkadian and for any serious reader of the ancient Near East.