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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Belshazzar
       n : (Old Testament) Babylonian general and son of Nebuchadnezzar
           II; according to the Old Testament he was warned of his
           doom by divine handwriting on the wall that was
           interpreted by Daniel (6th century BC)



From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Belshazzar
     Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon (Dan.
     5:1). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who was the
     daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the widow of Nergal-sharezer.
     When still young he made a great feast to a thousand of his
     lords, and when heated with wine sent for the sacred vessels his
     "father" (Dan. 5:2), or grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar had carried
     away from the temple in Jerusalem, and he and his princes drank
     out of them. In the midst of their mad revelry a hand was seen
     by the king tracing on the wall the announcement of God's
     judgment, which that night fell upon him. At the instance of the
     queen (i.e., his mother) Daniel was brought in, and he
     interpreted the writing. That night the kingdom of the Chaldeans
     came to an end, and the king was slain (Dan. 5:30). (See
     NERGAL-{SHAREZER}.)
     
       The absence of the name of Belshazzar on the monuments was
     long regarded as an argument against the genuineness of the Book
     of Daniel. In 1854 Sir Henry Rawlinson found an inscription of
     Nabonidus which referred to his eldest son. Quite recently,
     however, the side of a ravine undermined by heavy rains fell at
     Hillah, a suburb of Babylon. A number of huge, coarse
     earthenware vases were laid bare. These were filled with
     tablets, the receipts and contracts of a firm of Babylonian
     bankers, which showed that Belshazzar had a household, with
     secretaries and stewards. One was dated in the third year of the
     king Marduk-sar-uzur. As Marduk-sar-uzar was another name for
     Baal, this Marduk-sar-uzur was found to be the Belshazzar of
     Scripture. In one of these contract tablets, dated in the July
     after the defeat of the army of Nabonidus, we find him paying
     tithes for his sister to the temple of the sun-god at Sippara.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Belshazzar, master of the treasure
  

















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