Belshaz'zar,

Belshaz'zar, the name of a Babylonian prince mentioned in the book of Daniel as the last Chaldean king of Babylon, slain at the capture of the city by the Medes and Persians. No ancient historian mentions his name as one of the successors of Nebuchadnezzar, but the Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions give the name Bel-sar-nzar as that of the son of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon (555–538 B.C.), and one of his later inscriptions gives ground for the inference that the son was associated with his father on the throne. According to the book of Daniel he had a divine intimation of his impending fate in the words written by an invisible hand upon the wall, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin (lit. 'numbered, numbered, weighed, and divisions').