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www-peeters-leuven-be-2674	C. Waerzeggers, M. Seire	Xerxes and Babylonia	2019-03-29	229	.pdf	application/pdf	110149	19469	83	position of the qīpu, not just in Sippar but also in several other cities, is particularly indicative of the state's inability to maintain its established prerogatives in Babylonian temple administration in the years before the revolts. adduces new evidence, partly from unpublished texts, which dates the transformation of Uruk's civic religion more closely to the reign of Xerxes than previously possible. In a recent contribution, the present author discussed the significant developments in the social fabric of Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Babylonia, contrasting the 'long 6th century' — the period between Nabopolassar's establishment of the Chaldean dynasty in 6262 and the putting down of the revolts crushing of the rebellions in Xerxes' second year: the archive comes to a definitive end at this point.17 An hypothesis about the reasons and immediate circumstances of its deposition, and the fate of the Ebabbar temple thereafter, can 	./cache/www-peeters-leuven-be-2674.pdf	./txt/www-peeters-leuven-be-2674.txt