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Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar (Nabû-kuduri-usur): king of Babylonia, ruled 605-562.

A very damaged inscription of Nebuchadnezzar on the bank of the Nahr al-Kalb river

Father: Nabopolassar
Wife: Amytis (?)
Sons: ;Nabû-šuma-ukîn (=Amel-Marduk), Eanna-arra-usur, Marduk-šuma-usur, Marduk-nâdin-ahi, Mušêzib-Marduk, Marduk-nâdin-šumi
Daughter: Kasšaya (married to Neriglissar)

23 November 626: Nabopolassar becomes king of Babylonia; he has fought a war against the Assyrian overlords, which is continued
614: Sack of Aššur; rendez-vous between Nabopolassar and the Median leader Cyaxares. According to Berossus, Nebuchadnezzar marries the Median princess Amytis.
612: Sack of Nineveh; continued war
605: Nebuchadnezzar, the crown prince, defeats the Egyptian king Necho at Karchemish
August 605: Death of Nabopolassar; Nebuchadnezzar becomes king
Campaigns the west
c.599: Repair of the Ebabbar temple, dedicated to Šamaš, in Sippar^note
598: Beginning of the siege of Tyre?
597: First capture of Jerusalem; king Jehoiachin is replaced by king Zedekiah
596: Campaign against Elam
595: Renewed campaigning in the west
587 (or 586): Second capture of Jerusalem; deportation of the Judaean elite
585: Peace with Tyre, after a siege that had lasted thirteen years
582: annexation of Moab and Ammon (Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 10.181)
562: Death

Succeeded by: his son Amel-Marduk

Marad, Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II

Babylon, Brick of Nebuchadnezzar II

Babylon, The East India House Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II

Marad, Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II

Irving Finkel, "The Lament of Nabû-šuma-ukîn" in J. Renger (ed.), Babylon. Focus mesopotamischer Geschichte, Wiege früher Gelehrtsamkeit, Mythos in der Moderne (1999 Saaerbrücken) 323-341