King of Babylonia (733-732). Son of Nabû-nāṣir, also known as Nādinu (ABC 1), and Nadios (Ptolemaic Canon), Nabû-nādin-zēri was assassinated and deposed by his successor. No economic records are known from his short reign.
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Nabû-nāṣir
King of Babylonia (747-734) Also known as Nabonassar, this king dealt with an upsurge of Assyrian expansionism. It is unclear whether the four campaigns waged by the Assyrians in Babylon were interventions against Chaldean and Arameans at the request of Nabû-nāṣir or whether that was merely a justification forwarded by Assyrian royal inscriptions. Apparently, the city of Borsippa rebelled against this king (ABC 1). No royal inscriptions are known, but 22 economic texts dating to his reign have survived.
Nabû-šumu-iškun
King of Babylon ca. 760-748 BCE. Attested in the Babylonian King List A (BM 33332) as a member of the Chaldean tribe Bīt-Dakkūri. Three economic tablets and one kudurru (Borsippa) are dated in his reign. The events of his reign inspired the Late-Babylonian composition “The Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabû-šumu-iškun” (W 22660/0).
Nabû-šumu-iškun
King of Babylonia. (760-748) Attested in the Babylonian King List A (BM 33332) as a member of the Chaldean tribe Bīt-Dakkūri. Three economic texts and a kudurru (Borsippa) are dated in his reign. The events of his reign inspired the Late Babylonian composition “The Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabû-šumu-iškun” (W 22660/0).
Erība-Marduk
King of Babylonia (769-761). Attested in the Eclectic Chronicle (ABC 24) and the Dynastic Chronicle (ABC 18) as part of a Sealand Dynasty. The literary text known as the Uruk Prophecy may contain a reference to this king. His name and royal title are attested on 2 stone duck weights (Kalhu, Uruk) and one economic text from Babylon dating to the 9th year of his reign (BM 40548).
Dorothy Garrod
Dorothy Garrod (1892-1968) was the first female professor in Archaeology at Cambridge University (and of Britain) (1938-1952). She was an expert in prehistory and conducted excavations in Kurdistan, Palestine, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Lebanon, etc. She is well-known for the identification of the Natufian culture (12,000-10,000 years BCE). See also here.
Robert Koldewey
Robert Koldewey was a German archaeologist. He is well-known for introducing the technique of recording and excavating mudbrick architecture in the Ancient Near East. From 1901 till 1903 he excavated at Borsippa and Fara. Financed by the German Oriental Society, Robert Koldewey conducted each year – from 1899 till the start of WO I – archaeological excavations in Babylon.
Charles Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist. Born on 17th of April 1880 (London), died on 20th of February 1960 (London). Pursuing a formal education in archaeology, Woolley gained field experience by participating in excavations of British, Sudanese, Egyptian and Siro-Palestinian sites from different periods. Woolley’s main contributions to the archaeology of the Ancient Near East were the excavations of Ur (1922-1924) and of Tall-‘Ubaid (1923-1924), the periodization of the Ubaid culture and the discovery of the Royal Cemetery of Ur.
Paul-Émile Botta
French diplomat and excavator. Born in Turin on 6th of December 1802, died on 18th of April 1870 (Achères). While being vice-consul in Mosul from 1842 to 1845, Botta briefly sounded the ruins of Nineveh (Kuyunjik) and excavated at Dur Šarrukin (Khorsabad).
Austin Henry Layard
British MP, diplomat and excavator. Born 5th of March 1917 (Paris), died 5th of July 1894 (London). Between 1845-51 Layard conducted excavations at Kalḫu (Nimrud) and Nineveh (Kuyunjik). At Kalḫu Layard unearthed the North-Western Palace of Aššurnaṣirpal II and found the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III.