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===The Harran Stela===
===The Harran Stela===
The Harran Stela is a cuneiform text that [[Nabonidus]], king of Babylonia, commissioned in order to relate his restoration of the Ehulhul Temple of the moon-god Sin. There are two copies extant; probably many more copies were made, but after the fall of Babylon the Persians obliterated records like this that were favorable to Nabonidus, replacing them with texts such as the Nabonidus Chronicle the Dream Text of Nabonidus that pretended to be from Nabonidus, but were rewritten in such a way to disparage Nabonidus and glorify Cyrus.<ref>Anderson, ''Darius the Mede: A Reappraisal'', 95,125.</ref> The importance of the Stela therefore is that it narrates events from a perspective different from the Persian narrative of events related to the final years of the Neo-Babylonian kingdom.
The Harran Stela is a cuneiform text that [[Nabonidus]], king of Babylonia, commissioned in order to relate his restoration of the Ehulhul Temple of the moon-god Sin. There are two copies extant; probably many more copies were made, but after the fall of Babylon the Persians obliterated records like this that were favorable to Nabonidus, replacing them with texts such as the Nabonidus Chronicle the Dream Text of Nabonidus that pretended to be from Nabonidus, but were rewritten in such a way to disparage Nabonidus and glorify Cyrus.<ref>Anderson, ''Darius the Mede: A Reappraisal'', 95,125.</ref> The importance of the Stela therefore is that it narrates events from a perspective different from the Persian narrative of events related to the final years of the Neo-Babylonian kingdom.