Nebuchednezzar I as the ‘Babylonian Face’ of Sargon II/Sennacherib
by Damien F. Mackey What follows here presupposes my view that Sargon II and Sennacherib ‘were’ one and the same royal person, as explained in (for example) my: Assyrian King Sargon II, Otherwise Known As Sennacherib https://www.academia.edu/6708474/Assyrian_King_Sargon_II_Otherwise_Known_As_Sennacherib and in: Sargon II and Sennacherib: More than just an overlap https://www.academia.edu/8854988/Sargon_II_and_Sennacherib_More_than_just_an_overlap Now I am going to take a stage further, into the realm of Babylon, my expansion of the mighty Sargon II, by proposing also that Nebuchednezzar I himself, who had a famous battle with the Elamites outside Dêr, is to be recognised as the Babylonian version of Sargon II/ Sennacherib, who indeed fought with the Elamites outside Dêr. The neo-Assyrian king had succeeded Merodach-baladan as king of Babylon in his 13th year, and had reigned there f...