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No source on Nabonidus etc.

We have now:
"The last Babylonian king Nabonidus conquered Tayma and for ten years of his reign retired there to worship and search for prophecies, entrusting the kingship of Babylon to his son, Belshazzar. Taymanitic inscriptions also mention that people of Tayma fought wars with Dadān.<ref name=krc2>{{cite web |url=http://krc2.orient.ox.ac.uk/aalc/images/documents/mcam/mcam_ancient_north_arabian.pdf |title=krc2.orient.ox.ac.uk}}{{dead|date=May 2021}}</ref>"

There are no details for the source. The link is dead, and we have no author, title (krc2.orient.ox.ac.uk is anything but), work, year... Nothing, really. It might be a paper by Michael C. A. Macdonald from The Khalili Research Centre, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford; or it might have something to do with the OCIANA Corpus of Taymanitic inscriptions co-edited by him and María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón, but who can tell? The OCIANA Corpus is here and it does cover Nabonidus spending ten years in Tayma, but it doesn't mention Belshazzar, nor Nabonidus retiring there "to worship and search for prophecies", nor is there any explicit mention of wars with Dadān.

This passage and the source were introduced here by Oranjelo100. Maybe it can be optimised and re-sourced? Cheers, Arminden (talk) 15:18, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The war with Dedan is mentioned on p7 of Schaudig's article Section 1: Cuneiform Texts from the Saudi-German Excavations at Taymāʾ Seasons 2004–2015.

"There is also a group of graffiti found in the vicinity of Taymā', written in a North-Arabian script, formerly dubbed 'Thamudic A', now 'Taymanitic' (Müller - Al-Said 2001; Hayajneh 2001; Livingstone 2005; Al-Said 2009). Several of these graffitti give the names and professions of individuals who took part in the campaign of Nabonidus in Arabia. The names are commonly regarded as Arabian, and some may even be Greek, possibly as a result of the wars of the Late Babylonian empire on Cilicia during the reigns of Neriglissar and Nabonidus (Sack 1994, 32; Beaulieu 1989, 22. 117. 127). They are however not Judean, as one might have expected, in view of the later Judean traditions about Nabonidus and Taymā.

- PN ḫlm nbnd mlk bb/ "PN, the supporter of Nabonidus, king of Bābil"

- PN sdn mlk bb/ "PN, the guard of the king of Bābil"

Another group of graffiti deals with a "war on Dadan" (ḍr ddn), which is believed to have been part of Nabonidus' extended campaign in Arabia (Winnett - Reed 1970, 90-92 [discussion], 102-103. 105, nos. 20-23. 33)."

On another note, does anyone happen to have a reference for the quotation that it was first called Tiamat? It says Neo-Babylonian sources in the 8th C BCE, which is making me dubious since there wasn't a Neo-Babylonian Empire then. 118.209.212.139 (talk) 02:33, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

current town details

Despite being a town with a population of over 40,000 people, this page provides absolutely no information regarding its modern status found on many pages of much smaller towns 72.235.4.222 (talk) 05:25, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]