Nitocris of Babylon

According to the account, Darius was lured in by a mysterious inscription that served as a trap for greedy kings.

[3][4] According to Herodotus she was the wife of Nabonidus (Greek Labynētos) against whose son an expedition was launched by Cyrus the Great.

In the past, various hypotheses have been proposed to link her with one or several known persons:[8] It is possible as well that Nabonidus married one of Nebuchadnezzar II's daughters, a marriage which could potentially have been secured through his mother's influence.

Not only would such a connection explain Nabonidus's rise to the throne (being connected to the royal family) but it would also explain later historical traditions in which Nabonidus's son, Belshazzar, is described as Nebuchadnezzar II's descendant; as in the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible, where Belshazzar is referred to as Nebuchadnezzar II's (grand)son.

[10] William H. Shea proposed in 1982 that Nitocris may tentatively be identified as the name of Nabonidus's wife and Belshazzar's mother.