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Introduction to the volume Babylonian Chronographic Texts from the Hellenistic Period, a book of 1074 pages containing editions with transcription, translation and commentary of all Babylonian Chronicles, historical sections of the Astronomical Diaries, two king lists and the Antiochus Cylinder, all dating to the Late Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Parthian period up to 22 BCE.

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The book is a comprehensive edition of all chronicles and diaries accessible to scholars of all disciplines dealing with the Hellenistic period.

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DOI: 10.2307/jj.31106783.9.
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