Mari Eponym Chronicle

Mari Eponym Chronicles(MEC) are the oldest assyrian eponym chronicles compiled at Mari in the 18th century BC, covering the years before and during the reign of Shamshi-Adad I.The chronicles are important sources for the chronology of the Ancient Near East, which list at least one notable event per year under the name of a ruling official.The chronicles are 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 BC. ^[1] According to Werner Nahm (2014), this would date the beginning of the reign of Hammurabi to 1784 BC (close to the date of 1792 BC according to the Middle Chronology).^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• Chronology of the ancient Near East

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)