The Synchronistic King List

Anonymous / tradition (Neo-Assyrian scholarly compilation) · c. 8th-7th century BC (compiled from older Assyrian and Babylonian source material) · Ashur (Iraq) · history

A two-column tablet pairing each Assyrian king against his Babylonian contemporary argues, from the Assyrian side of a centuries-long rivalry, that Assyria's royal history could only be properly understood set directly against Babylon's, reign matched to reign.