Nebuchadnezzar II held public office at a time when the terms of that office were themselves being contested.
The record lists Nebuchadnezzar II as King of Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar II was born at Uruk in -641. His recorded nationality is Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Authority in this period rested on lineage, force and religious sanction; there were no electorates to answer to and few records kept by anyone but the victors.
He served as King of Babylon (-0605–-0562).
He is described as monarch, leader and king.
His name is attached above all to by Pharaoh Necho II and ensured that the Neo-Babylonian Empire would succeed the Neo-Assyrian Empire as the dominant pow. Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
That the career was made in Neo-Babylonian Empire is not incidental: the institutions available, the franchise, and the constraints of the moment all shaped what could be attempted.
Nebuchadnezzar II died in -560, aged 81. The assessment continues, as it does for anyone who held power - which is the ordinary fate of a political life.
Achievements
- King of Babylon (-0605–-0562)
