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καὶ τειχίσας ἀξιολόγως τὴν πόλιν, καὶ τοὺς πυλῶνας κοσμήσας ἱεροπρεπῶς, προσκατεσκεύασεν τοῖς πατρικοῖς βασιλείοις ἕτερα βασίλεια ἐχόμενα ἐκείνων, ὧν τὸ μὲν ἀνάστημα καὶ τὴν λοιπὴν πολυτέλειαν μακρὸν ἴσως ἔσται, ἐάν τις ἐξηγῆται, πλὴν ὄντα γε ὑπερβολὴν ὡς μεγάλα καὶ ὑπερήφανα συνετελέσθη ἡμέραις δεκαπέντε.

And having fortified the city in a noteworthy fashion, and equipped the gates in such a way as befitted their sanctity, he built another palace next to that of his father. It would perhaps lead too far to describe its height and general opulence here, except to say that, despite its enormous size and grandeur, it was completed in just fifteen days.

This part of Berossos’s account looks entirely Babylonian. Indeed, as van der Spek and Rollinger have shown (Van der Spek 2008; Rollinger 2013), it is lifted almost verbatim from one of Nebuchadnezzar’s own accounts of his building work in the so-called East India House Inscription (Nebukadnezar Nr. 15, cols XIII.54–IX.2 (Langdon)):

i-na ri-e-ši-šú ku-um-mu ra-ba-a a-na šú-ba-at ša-ar-ru-ti-ia i-na ku-up-ri ù a-gur-ri šá-ḳi-iš e-pú-uš-ma it-ti è-gal abi ú-ra-ad-di-ma in araḫ šá-al-mu i-na û-um magir i-šid-sa i-na i-ra-at ki-gal-lu ú-šá-ar-ši-id-ma ri-e-ši-šá ú-za-aḳ-ḳi-ir ḫu-ùr-sa-ni-iš i-na 15 û-um ši-bi-ir-šá ú-šá-ak-li-il-ma ú-šá-pa-a šú-bat be-lu-ti