electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment BM.35382, “Catalogue record for the Nabonidus Chronicle”
“The Nabonidus Chronicle. S. Smith, BHT, 98-123, pls. XI-XIV; Grayson, TCS 5, Chronicle 7; George, BiOr 53, 379 (new copy of col. iii 24-28).”
The catalogue record for the tablet from which the date of the fall of Babylon is taken. It is held in the British Museum, comes from Babylon, is classified as a chronicle, and carries the CDLI number P388185.
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Provenance and verification note for electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment BM.35382, Catalogue record for the Nabonidus Chronicle
Confidence note. The eBL API record was downloaded and read on 19 September 2026. The eBL edition carries a transliteration but no English translation, so the wording of the fall-of-Babylon entry is cited here from Parker and Dubberstein and from the Watch Tower's own quotation of Ancient Near Eastern Texts.
Corroborated by. src-chr-e-pd-1942-p11-nabonidus-cyrus, src-chr-e-w68-0815-absolute-539
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chr-e-ebl-bm35382