The Marduk Prophecy

Anonymous / tradition, framed as the god Marduk's own first-person account · c. 12th-11th century BC (composed to justify Nebuchadnezzar I's recovery of Marduk's cult statue from Elam; surviving copies are Neo-Assyrian) · Babylon (Iraq) · history

Speaking as Marduk himself recounting his own decision to journey, by his own account, to Hatti, Assyria, and Elam, the text argues that Nebuchadnezzar I's military recovery of the god's image was not simply a political victory but the fulfillment of a divine itinerary Marduk had predicted for himself in advance.