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The British Museum

  Tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (605-594 BC)
Neo-Babylonian, about 550-400 BC.
From Babylon, southern Iraq

"Nebuchadnezzar's campaigns in the west"

This tablet is one of a series that summarises the principal events of each year from 747 BC to at least 280 BC. Each entry is separated by a horizontal line and begins with a reference to the year of reign of the king in question.