It possibly represents part of an official collection of annals in the possession of the Achaemenid governors of Babylon.[6] The text, known at the time as "the Annals of Nabonidus", was first discussed in print by Sir Henry Rawlinson in the Athenaeum magazine of 14 February 1880, with the first English transliteration and translation being published two years later by Professor T. G. Pinches in the Transactions of the Society for Biblical Archaeology (1882).[2] It has since been translated by a number of scholars, notably Sidney Smith,[5] A. Leo Oppenheim,[7] Albert Kirk Grayson,[4] Jean-Jacques Glassner,[8] and Amélie Kuhrt.[9]