Mari Eponym Chronicle

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The Mari Eponym Chronicle (MEC) is the oldest Assyrian eponym chronicle, compiled at Mari in the 18th century BCE, covering the years before and during the reign of Shamshi-Adad I. The chronicle is an important source for the chronology of the Ancient Near East, which lists at least one notable event per year under the name of a ruling official. The chronicle is extant in eleven fragments excavated at the Royal Palace of Mari and was first edited by M. Birot in 1985.

Michel (2002) proposed the identification of a solar eclipse mentioned in the Mari Eponym Chronicle (in the year eponymous of Puzur-Ishtar) as occurring on 24 June 1833 BCE.[1] According to Werner Nahm (2014), this would date the beginning of the reign of Hammurabi to 1784 BCE (close to the date of 1792 BCE according to the Middle Chronology).

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References

  1. C. Michel, "Nouvelles données pour la chronologie du IIe millénaire", Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2002, issue 1, note 20, pages 17-18. .
  • M Birot, "Les chroniques 'Assyriennes' de Mari", MARI 4 (1985), 219–242.
  • Rafal Kolinski, "The Mari Eponym Chronicle: Reconstruction of the Lay-Out of the Text and the Placement of Fragment C", Anatolica 41 (2015), 61–86.
  • A. Millard, "The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 BC", Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project (1994)