Errors and Corrections
Since there are thousands of dateable texts in the survey it is not surprising that there will have been some errors in the process of copying, translating, and collating the texts; Walker writes [1]:
Note that in Neo-Babylonian texts there is always the possibility of confusion (because of inaccuracy in either reading or writing) between months IV, VII, and XI, between months V and X, and between months IX and XII. The handbooks which suggest that these month-names are clearly distinguishable in the cuneiform script do not give warning of the range of possible error that arise from sloppy, defective, or cursive writing. Readings which are critical to chronology should be collated again and again, preferably by different Assyriologists experienced in working with Neo-Babylonian texts.
I have applied a number of corrections to my own copy of Everling's survey which can be tracked here: CHRON.CHN
List of Additions and Corrections
MLC 1739
BRM 1, 38 [2, p. 46] or K.141 [3, p. 36]
Correction of database from Shamash-shum-ukin 20.07.25 to 20.04.15.
PTS 2761
T.21.14 [4, p. 215]
Added missing tablet Nabopolassar 21.05.20 to the database.
Krückmann 238
TuM 2/3, 238 [5]
Correction of database from Nebuchadnezzar II 43.08.o to 42.08.o.
BM 55806
CT 55, 138 [6]
Moved from year Nebuchadnezzar II 43 to unknown year: "the year number is far from clear" [7] [1, p. 3]
BM 75322
Cat.BM 8 [8, p. 31]
Added missing tablet Amel-Marduk 00.5.20 [9] to the database.
BM 80920
AOATS 4, 56 (Sack No. 56) [10]
Correction of database from Amel-Marduk acc.04.20 to acc.07.20 [11] [1, p. 8].
BM 65270
Zawadzki ZA 86 218 [12, p. 218]
Correction of database to Amel-Marduk from 00.06?.05 to 00.11?.05 [13].
HMA 9-02507
UCP 9/1, II, 29. (UCBC 378) [14, p. 53] or Sack No. 70 [10, p. 99]
Moved from Amel-Marduk 00.4.29 to an unknown month - 'The tablet is eroded and the sign is not very clear'.
BM 61325
Cat.BM 7 [15, p. 36]
Added missing tablet Amel-Marduk 02.10.17? [16] to the database.
BM 30419
Evetts, Ner. 12. [17]
Correction of database from Neriglissar 00.05.06 to 00.10.06 - 'Probably dated month 10 (written ITU.A[B]), rather than month 5 as given by Evetts and Sack.' [18].
BM 60231
AOAT 236, 97 (Sack No. 97) [19, p. 54]
Moved from Neriglissar 00.1.26 to an unknown month 00.x.20 [20].
EKBK 12-15
Moved from Amel-Marduk to Labashi-Marduk [21].
YBC 4012
Sack ZA 66 287f [22, p. 287]. Moved from Amel-Marduk to Labashi-Marduk.
BM 82629
Roth AfO 36/37 n13 [23] [24]. Moved from Amel-Marduk to Labashi-Marduk.
BM 56911
CT 57, 774. [25]
Moved from Nabonidus 17.12?.x to 17.x.x, month very damaged [26]
BM 74951
[27] Nbn. 1055. [28, p. 25]
Moved from Nabonidus 17.9.o to 17.x.o - according to [29, p. 13]:
No. 1055 is dated to IX/-/17 by Strassmaier on the basis of the giving of the maššartum for the IX/-/17 of Nabunaid (lines 2-4). Since a maššartum was often given some months in advance (see Strassmaier, Nabonidus, Nos. 219,346,361) this tablet is useless for exact dating purposes.
BM 55694
CT 57, 168. [25]
Moved from Nabonidus 17.12.19 to an uncertain year [30].
List of Abbreviations
AfO = Archiv für Orientforschung
AOAT = Alter Orient und Altes Testament
AOATS = Alter Orient und Altes Testament: Sonderreihe
BM = British Museum
BRM = Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan
Cat. BM = Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum
CT = Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets
EKBK = Einige kleinere babylonische Keilschrifttexte aus dem Britischen Museum
HMA = Hearst Museum of Anthropology
MLC = tablets in the collections of the J. Pierpont Morgan Library
PTS = Princeton Theological Seminary
TuM = Texte und Materialien der Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities im Eigentum der Universität Jena
UCP = University of California Publications in Semitic Philology
YBC = tablets in the Babylonian Collection, Yale University Library
ZA = Zeitschrift für Assyriologie
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[7] “BM 55806,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1882-0714-164.
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[9] “BM 75322,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1883-0118-AH-655.
[10] R. H. Sack, Amēl-Marduk, 562-560 B.C. A Study Based on Cuneiform, Old Testament, Greek, Latin and Rabbinical Sources, vol. 4. Butzon & Bercker, 1972.
[11] “BM 80920,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1891-0509-1059.
[12] S. Zawadzki, “Two Neo-Babylonian Documents from 562 BC,” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 217–219, 1996, [Online]. Available: https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zava/86/2/article-p217.xml.
[13] “BM 65270,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1882-0918-5255.
[14] H. F. Lutz, Selected Cuneiform Texts, vol. 9. University of California Press, 1931, [Online]. Available: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011341370&view=1up&seq=15.
[15] E. Leichty and A. K. Grayson, Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Volume VII: Tablets from Sippar 2, vol. 7. British Museum Publications, 1987.
[16] “BM 61325,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1882-0918-1300.
[17] B. T. A. Evetts, Inscriptions of the reigns of Evil-Merodach (B.C. 562-559), Neriglissar (B.C. 559-555) and Laborosoarchod (B.C. 555). 1892, [Online]. Available: https://web.archive.org/web/20200726141246/http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20277.pdf.
[18] “BM 30419,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1876-1117-141.
[19] R. H. Sack et al., Neriglissar-king of Babylon, vol. 236. Butzon & Bercker, 1994.
[20] “BM 60231,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1882-0918-196.
[21] S. J. N, “Einige kleinere babylonische Keilschrifttexte aus dem Britischen Museum,” Actes du huitième congrès international des Orientalistes, tenu en 1889 à Stockholm et à Christiania. Deuxième partie, Section I B., pp. 279–283, 1893, [Online]. Available: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9680937m.texteImage?lang=EN.
[22] R. H. Sack, “Some Remarks on Sin-Iddina and Zērija, qīpu and šatammu of Eanna in Erech... 562–56 BC,” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 280–291, 1976, [Online]. Available: https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zava/66/2/article-p280.xml.
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[24] “BM 82629,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1894-0611-23.
[25] T. G. Pinches, Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum Part 57: Neo-Babylonian and Archaemenid Economic Texts, vol. 57. London: British Museum Publications Ltd. for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1982.
[26] “BM 56911,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1882-0714-1319.
[27] “BM 74951,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1883-0118-AH-273.
[28] J. N. Strassmaier and B. T. A. Evretts, Babylonische Texte: Inschriften von Nabonidus, König von Babylon (555-538 v. Chr.), vol. 1. E. Pfeiffer, 1889, [Online]. Available: http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20392.pdf.
[29] W. H. Dubberstein and R. A. Parker, Babylonian Chronology 626 B.C.-A.D. 75. Brown University Press, 1956, [Online]. Available: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/babylon/downloads/babylonian_chronology_pd_1971.pdf.
[30] “BM 55694,” The British Museum. [Online]. Available: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1882-0714-51.