* Nabonidus Chronicle — Mesopotamia

It appears in Assyrian texts ( namely, the Nabonidus Chronicle ) as Iatribu.

The Nabonidus Chronicle records that, prior to the battle ( s ), Nabonidus had ordered cult statues from outlying Babylonian cities to be brought into the capital, suggesting that the conflict over Susa had begun possibly in the winter of 540 BCE.

In the Nabonidus Chronicle it is said that Cyrus " marched against the country --, killed its king, took his possessions, put there a garrison of his own.

According to the Nabonidus Chronicle, Nabonidus was back from Temâ by his seventeenth year and celebrated the New Year's Festival ( Akk.

More helpful is the Nabonidus Chronicle.

In the reference in the Nabonidus Chronicle to a campaign by Cyrus in ( possibly ) 547 BCE, during which a country was taken and its king killed, the text showing the name country is damaged although it may be Urartu.

* Chronicle of Nabonidus and other documents in the British Museum.

This is similar to another Babylonian history, Chronicle of Nabonidus, and differs from the rationalistic accounts of other Greek historians like Thucydides.

According to the Greek author Herodotus, Cyrus treated Croesus well and with respect after the battle, but this is contradicted by the Nabonidus Chronicle, one of the Babylonian Chronicles ( although whether or not the text refers to Lydia's king or prince is unclear ).

According to the Chronicle of Nabonidus, when Cassandane died, all the nations of Cyrus's empire observed " a great mourning ", and, particularly in Babylonia, there was probably even a public mourning lasting for six days ( identified from 21 – 26 March 538 BC ).

It was common in the past to give 547 BC as the year of the conquest due to some interpretations of the Nabonidus Chronicle, but this position is currently not much held.

According to Herodotus, Cyrus the Great spared Croesus's life and kept him as an advisor, but this account conflicts with some translations of the contemporary Nabonidus Chronicle ( the King who was himself subdued by Cyrus the Great after conquest of Babylonia ), which interpret that the king of Lydia was slain.

The Nabonidus Chronicle records that, prior to the battle ( s ), Nabonidus had ordered cult statues from outlying Babylonian cities to be brought into the capital, suggesting that the conflict had begun possibly in the winter of 540 BC.

* Chronicle of Nabonidus, translation at Livius. org

* Nabonidus Chronicle ( ABC 7 ) ( text and translation )

* Leo Oppenheim's translation of the Nabonidus Chronicle can be found in J.

The contemporary Chronicle of Nabonidus refers to the mutiny on the battlefield as the cause for Astyages ' overthrow, but does not mention Harpagus by name.

Grayson translation of the Nabonidus Chronicle based on that of T. G.

The Chronicle of Nabonidus, the Cyrus Cylinder and the so-called Verse Account of Nabonidus contain apologies for the Persian king shedding a rather unfavourable light on the Babylonian king so that it appears that Cyrus I was a liberator and defender of Babylonian orthodoxy, acknowledging him has a legitimate successor to the Babylonian throne.