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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—N

Nabonassar

or Nebo-adon-Assur. (Nebo, Prince of Assyria.) Founder of the Babylonian and Chaldæan kingdom, and first of the dynasty of Nabonassar.

Era of Nabonassar
began Wednesday, February 26th, 747 B.C., the day of Nabonassar's accession. It was used by Ptolemy, and by the Babylonians, in all their astronomical calculations.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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