Nabonassar
Americannoun
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He brings �sop to Babylon, in the reign of king Lycerus, a king of his own making; for his name is not to be found in any catalogue, from Nabonassar to Alexander the Great; Nabonadius, most probably, reigning in Babylon about that time.
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To all appearance, however, he was not recognized by the Babylonians themselves as king, Nabonassar being then on the throne.
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When speaking of the eclipses which were observed at Babylon, Ptolemy gives a list of Babylonian kings, with the length of their reigns, from the so-called era of Nabonassar, in b.c.
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Era of Nabonassar.—This era is famous in astronomy, having been generally followed by Hipparchus and Ptolemy.
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It is believed to have been in use from the very time of its origin; for the observations of eclipses which were collected in Chaldaea by Callisthenes, the general of Alexander, and transmitted by him to Aristotle, were for the greater part referred to the beginning of the reign of Nabonassar, founder of the kingdom of the Babylonians.
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