Royal and satrapal armies in Babylonia during the Second Diadoch War. The Chronicle of the Successorson the events during the seventh year of Philip Arrhidaeus (=317/316 BC)

AbstractThe passage in the Chronicle of the Successorsdealing with the year Phil.07 (=317/316 BC; ABC10 Obv. 14?18 = BCHP3 Obv. 33?37) is often used as a marker to favour the low-chronology hypothesis for the early Hellenistic period and Second Diadoch War. This in-depth study of this passage deals with the nature of the troops mentioned there (l?eren2.me? lugal, ?royal troops?, and l??a-ni-i ??lugal, ?royal ?an?troops?) and the possible implications for the chronological debate. The result is that the passage is not pivotal for the low chronology because it is not only in a low-chronology scenario that it is possible. The use of ?royal (?an?) troops' in the Chronicledoes not exclude the high chronology for the Second Diadoch War.