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Babylonian & Assyrian Religion
Akkadian religion
c.2000 BCE – c.100 CE · Ancient Near East · Extinct · Mesopotamia
II. THE FIRST CIVILISATIONS — c.3000 – 1000 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1894 BCE Babylon founded as an Amorite city-state.
- c.1754 BCE Hammurabi's law stele shows him receiving authority from Shamash, god of justice.
- c.1100 BCE Enuma Elish reaches its standard form; Marduk's supremacy fixed.
- 883–612 BCE Neo-Assyrian empire; Ashur's cult spread by deportation and terror.
- 612 BCE Nineveh falls; Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh is buried and thereby preserved.
- 587 BCE Nebuchadnezzar II destroys the Jerusalem temple and deports the Judean elite — the exile that reshapes Judaism permanently.
- 539 BCE Cyrus of Persia takes Babylon and presents himself as Marduk's chosen, on the Cyrus Cylinder.
- 79/80 CE The last datable cuneiform tablet, astronomical almanac W22340a from Uruk. The tradition ends in silence.
### Sources
Verified 2026-09-13, against these.
- Almanac W22340a from Uruk: the latest datable cuneiform tablet, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie (2014)
- ANE Today, the Babylonian akitu festival and the ritual humiliation of the king
- Livius, Akitu festival
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