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4 ssss1 E.g. Tiamat = Thalassa at BNJ 680 F 1b (6) and BNJ 685 F 1b; Bel = Zeus at BNJ 680 F 1b (8); Ea = Kronos: BNJ 680 F 4 (14) and BNJ 685 F 3b (2); Aššur-bān-apli = Sardanapallos: BNJ 685 F 5 (8). See also γόγγαι ~ κριθαί at BNJ 680 F 1b (2); and Sarachero ~ ἡ κοσμητρία τῆς Ἥρας at BNJ 680 F 13.

5 ssss1 See especially AD 2 -187A obv. 11ʹ, where Antiochus III is offered the cloak of Nebuchadnezzar upon his return from the west. The Seleucids generally avoided invoking Achaemenid precedent for their actions. Reviving Neo-Babylonian traditions of kingship seems to have been part of this wider strategy; see Haubold 2013a: 130–132.

6 ssss1 To these we might add κοσμήσας ἱεροπρεπῶς, προσχαρίσασθαι and (προσ-)κατασκευάζειν. For parallels see, e.g., Ma 1999: 309, First Teian Decree for Antiochos III and Laodike III, lines 16 (χαρίζεσθαι) and 45–46 (ἱεροπρεπέστατα).

7 ssss1 For similar formulations see, e.g., Ma 1999: 369–370, Decree of the Citizens of Apollonia under Salbake for Pamphilos, lines 1–2 and 9, 19, and 23 (διοικεῖν); Polybius 4.48.9–10 (τὴν βασιλείαν τηρεῖν).