Chronicle P

Chronicle P
A portion of Chronicle P referring to the events surrounding the reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I.[1]
Height12 cm
Width18 cm
Discoveredbefore 1882
Present locationLondon, England, United Kingdom

Chronicle P, known as Chronicle 22 in Grayson’s Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles[2] and Mesopotamian Chronicle 45: "Chronicle of the Kassite Kings" in Glassner's Mesopotamian Chronicles[3] is named for T. G. Pinches, the first editor of the text. It is a chronicle of the second half of the second millennium BC or the Kassite period, written by a first millennium BC Babylonian scribe.

  1. ^ L. W. King (1904). Records of the reign of Tikutli-Ninib I, King of Assyria, About B.C. 1275. Luzac and Co. p. 51.
  2. ^ A. K. Grayson (1975). Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles. J. J. Augustin. pp. 139–41.
  3. ^ Jean-Jacques Glassner (2004). Mesopotamian Chronicles. Society of Biblical Literature. pp. 278–281.