Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, “Introduction: the fall of Assyria”
“Kandalanu appears to have rebelled against his overlord during the period of uncertainty over the succession which followed the death of Assur-etil-ilani, the successor of Ashurbanipal.”
Wiseman places Ashur-etel-ilani, and elsewhere Sin-shar-ishkun 'the king of Assyria', in the Assyrian succession before Nabopolassar took the throne of Babylon in 626 BCE.
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Provenance and verification note for Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, Introduction: the fall of Assyria
Confidence note. Read in the ETANA PDF on 19 September 2026; running head '6 CHRONICLES OF CHALDAEAN KINGS'. Elsewhere in the same volume Wiseman writes of 'Sin-sar-iskun, the king of Assyria' opposing the Babylonians 'before Nabopolassar's accession'.
Scan provenance. Full scan of the British Museum volume hosted by ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives), an academic digital-library consortium. Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum, 1956.
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Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p6-assyrian-kings