Dangling Assyriology
How I studied the Neo-Babylonian Inscription of Nabonidus 300 feet above the ground ... and lived to tell about it!
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Endnotes
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Stephanie Dalley and Anne Goguel; Paolo Gentili and Claudio Saporetti; Eli Raz, Tal Raz, and Alexander Uchitel.
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The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty (Babylon 7), Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/).
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The Department of Antiquities of Jordan granted permission to undertake archaeological excavations in as-Sila. The excavations and surveys at Sela have been funded by the ICREA Academia Research Prize, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture, the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of the Government of Catalonia, and the PALARQ Foundation. The project also has the support of the Water Research Institute of the University of Barcelona and the Spanish Embassy in Amman. The author would like to acknowledge the Aerial Photographic Archive of Archaeology in the Middle East (APAAME) for the permission granted to publish some of their photographs from Sela.
4. See Rocío Da Riva, “The King of the Rock Revisited: The site of as-Sila (Tafila, Jordan) and the Inscription of Nabonidus of Babylon,” in Pavel S. Avetisyan, Roberto Dan, and Yervand H. Grekyan, eds., Over the Mountains and Far Away: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology Presented to Mirjo Salvini on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019), pp. 161-174.