[726] Joseph. "c. Apion." 1, 19.
[727] Isaiah xiii. 19 ff.
[728] Arrian, "Anab." 7, 19, 4.
[729] Ménant, loc. cit., p. 218.
[730] Berosi fragm. 14, ed. Müller.
[731] 2 Kings xxv. 27-30.
[732] Oppert, "Exped." 2, 324, cf. 1, 181.
[733] Ménant, loc. cit., p. 249.
[734] Berosi fragm. 14, ed. Müller. That Evilmerodach ascended the throne in 561 B.C. is established, not only by the astronomical canon, but also by the statement of the Hebrews that Evilmerodach liberated Jechoniah in the thirty-seventh year of his imprisonment, 2 Kings xxv. 27. Jerem. lii. 31. Between Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonetus the astronomical canon only mentions Evilmerodach and Neriglissar, with six years between them. Josephus supplements this by the dates of the years in Berosus ("c. Apion." 1, 20), which in the result agree with the canon. Cf. Euseb. "Chron." 1, p. 50, ed. Schöne. "Præp. Evang." 9, 40. The accession of Nabonetus in the year 555 B.C. is also fixed by the document in Oppert et Ménant "Doc. Jurid." p. 262. The statements of Josephus ("Antiq." 10, 11, 2) are entirely false and untenable. The name of the last king Nabonetus is established against the Labynetus of Herodotus (1, 77) by the inscriptions.
[735] Oppert, loc. cit., 1, 325, 326.