... that Nabonidus was only a member of the group, who killed Labasi-Marduk and he several times during his reign complains saying that he did not want to become a king. 1.1. The usurper Nabonidus. Nabonidus seems to have been born before the year 620 BC. as he is taking part in a reconciliation between the Lydians and the Medes mentioned with the name Labynetus (Herodotus, Book I: 74). At that time (597 BC.) he was a sa muhhi ali (an official in charge of a city). He was born as the only son of a priestess for the moon-god Sin in Harran, Adad-guppi. His father, Nabu-balatsu-iqbi, was a `wise prince' or `heroic governor', and could well have been an Assyrian official in Harran about. 620-616 BC. Some scholars have discussed the possibility that Nabonidus should be out of a local Aramaic or at least west-Semitic tribe or maybe of Assyrian origin. 1.2. ...

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