Nabonidus relief at Sela (Jordan), VI cent. BCE.

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Evidence of Neo-Babylonian involvement in Edom (S. Jordan) is the inscribed relief on a rock face at Sela’, 5 km north of Busayra, presumably produced on the orders of king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 BCE), when he travelled through Edom (on his way to Tayma in Arabia). On the left of the relief there is a figure of the Babylonian king facing right under three astral symbols (a moon, a solar disc and a star), with a cuneiform text. On the right, we find further remains of a cuneiform text.

(Rocío Da Riva & Adrián Salgado)

Da Riva, Rocío. 2020. “The Nabonidus Inscription in Sela (Jordan): Epigraphic Study and Historical Meaning.” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 110 (2): 176–195. https://doi.org/10.1515/za-2020-0018.