The evidence for Assyrians in Babylonia during the Chaldean and
Achaemenian periods. is presented in section II below. This evidence
consists mainly of onomastic material which is thoroughly analyzed. The
prosopography of the Assyrians consists of 116 individuals who lived in
Babylonia between 626/5 and 404/3 (or 349/8) B.C. The analysis of the
onomastic material is also of linguistic interest as it reveals that
several Assyrian dialectal features were still current after the fall of
the Assyrian empire.