Nabonassar

Nabonassar, King of Babylon
predecessor	Nabû-šuma-iškun
reign	747–734 BC
successor	Nabû-nādin-zēri
birth	c.635 BC
death	562 BC
spouse	?
father	?
mother	unknown

Nabonassar or Nabonasar was king of the Babylonian Empire between 747 to 734 BC.

He systematically destroyed every record that could be aquired regarding the kings before him so that all history would begin with himself. Consequentially Nabonassar's reign marks a new period from which we have much better records: marked by both the Canon of Ptolemy and the [[