Nebuchadnezzar

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king of ancient Babylon

Names

  • Arabic: بخت نصر = Bukht Naṣar 1
  • Arabic: بختنصر = Bukhtnaṣar 2
  • Armenian: Նաբուգոտոնոսոր = Nabugotonosor 3
  • Hebrew: נבוכדנצר = NBWKDNṢR 4
  • Latin: Nabuchodonosor 5-6
  • Syriac: ܢܒܘܟܕܢܨܪ = ΝBWKDΝṢR 7-8

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Khach‘atur.3 1386138613861950
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion5 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce6 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian7-8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 208، 257، 310، 376، 384، 479 (2) 90، 272، 329، 330، 331 (3) 281، 400 (4) 78 (5) 410، 411، 453 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 96 (5) 137، 140 [Arabic].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 702a pp. 561-562 [Armenian].
    • Nabugotonosor: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1386 (no. 2) [English].
  • 4Nebuchadnezzar: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 65 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Nabuchodonosor: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 5. [Latin].
  • 6Nabuchodonosor: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 29. [Latin].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 18 [Syriac].
    • Nabouchodonosor: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 31, 78, 92-100; III, 132, 150, 284 [French].
    • Nebuchadnezzar: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), xviii, 268 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 527 [Syriac].
    • Néboukadnaçar: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 78 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Nebuchadnezzar” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/1823.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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