ClaimChronology and 607 BCEverified1950sExplicit statement

Chronologie und 607 v. u. Z. · Claim record

Die babylonische Chronik BM 21946 hält fest, dass Nebukadnezar II. in seinem siebten Jahr „die Stadt Juda“ belagerte und sie am zweiten Tag des Monats Adar einnahm, wobei er ihren König gefangen nahm. D. J. Wiseman, der die Tafel 1956 für das Britische Museum veröffentlichte, rechnete dieses Datum in den 15. oder 16. März 597 v. u. Z. um.

Claim ID claim-chronology-bm21946-jerusalem-597Concerns 1956Ausdrückliche Aussage

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Ausdrückliche Aussage · 1956 Geprüft

Die babylonische Chronik BM 21946 hält fest, dass Nebukadnezar II. in seinem siebten Jahr „die Stadt Juda“ belagerte und sie am zweiten Tag des Monats Adar einnahm, wobei er ihren König gefangen nahm. D. J. Wiseman, der die Tafel 1956 für das Britische Museum veröffentlichte, rechnete dieses Datum in den 15. oder 16. März 597 v. u. Z. um. Source: Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, 1956Source: Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, 1956Source: electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment BM.21946, 2026

Die Position der Organisation oder ihre spätere Erklärung: Die Organisation bestreitet die Tafel nicht, hält aber daran fest, dass die babylonischen Chroniken „nur 35 Jahre der neubabylonischen Epoche“ abdecken und die Chronologie daher nicht festlegen können (Der Wachtturm, 1. November 2011, S. 23).

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Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, “Transliteration and translation of B.M. 21946, obverse lines 11-13”

1956 · p.73 · D. J. Wiseman · The Trustees of the British Museum, London

“In the seventh year, the month of Kislev, the king of Akkad mustered his troops, marched to the Hatti-land, and encamped against (i.e. besieged) the city of Judah and on the second day of the month of Adar he seized the city and captured the king. He appointed there a king of his own choice (lit. heart), received its heavy tribute and sent (them) to Babylon.”

This is the editio princeps of the tablet usually called the Babylonian Chronicle Chronicle 5 or the Jerusalem Chronicle. The passage records Nebuchadnezzar II's capture of Jerusalem and of its king in his seventh regnal year.

Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, Transliteration and translation of B.M. 21946, obverse lines 11-13

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. The complete 1956 volume was downloaded as a PDF from etana.org on 19 September 2026, converted to text with pdftotext and read directly. The running head immediately above this passage reads 'TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION 73'.

Herkunft des Scans. 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.

Untermauert durch. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p33-second-adar, src-chr-e-ebl-bm21946

Notes. The tablet's British Museum registration number is 1896,0409.51.

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p73-seventh-year

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Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, “Introduction: the historical background”

1956 · p.33 · D. J. Wiseman · The Trustees of the British Museum, London

“The date of this conquest of Jerusalem is now known precisely for the first time, namely, the second of Adar (15/16th March 597 B.C.).”

Wiseman explains that the chronicle states Nebuchadnezzar 'besieged Jerusalem (literally: the city of Judah) and seized it on the second day of the month Adar', and converts that Babylonian date into the Julian calendar.

Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, Introduction: the historical background

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Read in the ETANA PDF on 19 September 2026. The running head above the passage reads 'INTRODUCTION 33'.

Herkunft des Scans. 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.

Untermauert durch. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p73-seventh-year

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p33-second-adar

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electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment BM.21946, “Catalogue record for the Babylonian Chronicle BM 21946”

2026 · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen

The academic catalogue record for the chronicle Wiseman published. It gives the museum as the British Museum, the museum number as BM 21946, the accession number as 1896,0409.51, the CDLI number as P555785, the genre as Chronicle, and the standard edition as A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975), pp. 99-102 no. 5 — that is, Grayson’s Chronicle 5.

Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment BM.21946, Catalogue record for the Babylonian Chronicle BM 21946

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. The eBL API record for BM.21946 was downloaded on 19 September 2026 and the museum number, accession number, CDLI number, genre and bibliography read from its structured fields. The record contains no continuous sentence, so no quotation is recorded for it: its description field is empty. The string “TCS 5” does not appear in the record; the identification of Grayson’s volume with Texts from Cuneiform Sources 5 is standard bibliography, stated here as context and not as a quotation. The British Museum’s own collection-online page could not be opened.

Untermauert durch. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p73-seventh-year

Notes. britishmuseum.org refused every automated request made in this session (HTTP 403 to earlier attempts; no response at all to curl with a browser user-agent). See the notes file.

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