Nabonassar
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| Nabonassar, King of Babylon |
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| predecessor | Nabû-šuma-iškun |
| reign | 747–734 BC |
| successor | Nabû-nādin-zēri |
| birth | c.635 BC |
| death | 562 BC |
| spouse | ? |
| father | ? |
| mother | unknown |
Nabonassar or Nabonasar was king of the Babylonian Empire between 747 to 734 BC.
He systematically destroyed every record that could be aquired regarding the kings before him so that all history would begin with himself. Consequentially Nabonassar's reign marks a new period from which we have much better records: marked by both the Canon of Ptolemy and the [[