eponym list

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• major reference ( in chronology: Mesopotamian chronology, 747 to 539 bc )

  ...office of limmu for one year only and whom historians also call by the Greek name of eponym. Annals of the Assyrian kings were being found at the same time as eponym lists, and a number of these annals, or the campaigns mentioned in them, were dated by eponyms who figured in the eponym lists. Moreover, some of the Assyrian kings in the annals were also...

• account of eclipse ( in eclipse: Uses of eclipses for chronological purposes )

  ...onward—is confirmed by eclipses. The eclipse of 763 bc, recorded in the Assyrian Chronicle, makes it possible to carry the chronology back with certainty through the period covered by that eponym canon to 893 bc. Identifiable eclipses that were recorded under named Roman consuls extend back to 217 bc. The lunar eclipse seen at Pydna in Macedonia on June 21, 168 bc, and the solar...

• use in Mesopotamian chronology ( in epigraphy: Ancient Mesopotamia )

  ...the reign of Hammurabi (1792–1750 bc) to the 6th century bc. There are lists of date formulas and year names from Hammurabi’s reign and from that of his son Samsuiluna; lists of Assyrian eponymous year names, based on those of dignitaries; the Babylonian king lists, running from Hammurabi through the Kassite era and the Assyrian domination of Babylon to the last flicker of Babylonian...

  in Mesopotamia, history of: The Sumerians to the end of the Early Dynastic period )

  ...bc. The basis for the chronology after about 1450 bc is provided by the data in the Assyrian and Babylonian king lists, which can often be checked by dated tablets and the Assyrian lists of eponyms (annual officials whose names served to identify each year). It is, however, still uncertain how much time separated the middle of the 15th century bc from the end of the 1st dynasty of...