Building Inscriptions of Nabopolassar
The founder of the Neo-Babylonian empire, who threw off Assyrian rule and razed Nineveh with Median allies, argues for his own legitimacy less through conquest narrative than through piety, cataloguing his restoration of Babylon's temples, above all the Esagila, as proof the gods had chosen him.
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