“He Lied to the People, Saying ‘I Am Nebuchadnezzar’”: Issues in Authority Control for Rebels, Usurpers, Eccentric Nobility, and Dissenting Royalty

Current cataloging guidelines for creating name authority records (NARs) royalty and nobility assume that an individual’s claim to a royal title is clear unambiguous. In the case of historical rebels, usurpers, eccentrics who titles themselves, however, are not so clear. When we attempt describe people places from disputed past, actively enter into their struggles power, but rules documents like Resource Description Access (RDA) do address question legitimacy claimed title. Fortunately, recent scholarship on self-determination in NARs living creators subject terminology contested political jurisdictions can help us develop more ethical practices names ambiguous legitimacy. This paper uses Nidintu-Bēl/Nebuchadnezzar III, rebel against Achaemenid emperor Darius I named Behistun Inscription (6 th century BCE), as study establish best identity management representatives dissenting royalty.