Nebuchadnezzar II Inscriptions near Brissa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Two rock reliefs with inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II were engraved in the Wadi esh-Sharbin, about 2 km southwest of the modern Lebanese town Brissa (also called Braïssé, Brisa).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/809004346
34.430959, 36.3115835
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of the Brisa Inscriptions (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Brīṣā Inscriptions (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- بريصا (Brīṣā: Arabic, modern)
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One of the Akkadian inscriptions is written in contemporary Neo-Babylonian script, while the other is engraved in archaizing Neo-Babylonian script.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Nebuchadnezzar II Inscriptions near Brissa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/809004346> [accessed: 26 December 2024]
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