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~1749 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

SAOC 44, 77

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — SAOC 44, 77. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Samsu-iluna y1 —…

Law

~1749 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

VS 18, 004

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — VS 18, 004. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Samsu-iluna y1 — S…

Law

~1749 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

VS 18, 011

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — VS 18, 011. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Samsu-iluna y1 — S…

Law

~1711 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

BE 06/1, 072

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — BE 06/1, 072. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Abi-eshuh y1 — A…

Economy

~1683 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

PBS 08/2, 189

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — PBS 08/2, 189. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ammi-ditana y1…

Economy

~1683 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

VS 18, 013

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — VS 18, 013. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ammi-ditana y1 — A…

Law

~1340 BCE·Middle BabylonianEditorial

Amarna Letter EA 153 — Abi-milku of Tyre

Part of the earliest known body of international diplomatic correspondence. Akkadian, written in cuneiform on clay, was the lingua franca of Late Bronze Age statecraft — used between Egypt, the Hittites, Mitanni, Babylon, Assyria, and the Levantine vassals.

Daily Life·Law

~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianOur engine

Adad-narari I 01

Lists the cities and peoples — Kassites, Gutians, Lullumê, Šubareans — subjugated by Adad-nārārī I, documenting Assyria's territorial expansion toward the Euphrates and into Mitanni's former heartland around 1300 BCE.

SAOC 44, 77

VS 18, 004

VS 18, 011

BE 06/1, 072

PBS 08/2, 189

VS 18, 013

Amarna Letter EA 153 — Abi-milku of Tyre

Adad-narari I 01

Adad-narari I 06

Adad-narari I 1001

Adad-narari I 25

Adad-narari I 31

Adad-narari I 35

Adad-narari I 39

Adad-narari I 40

Adad-narari I 44

Aššur-bel-kala 01

Aššur-bel-kala 08

Aššur-bel-kala 09

Aššur-reša-iši I 02

Eriba-Adad II 1

Šamši-Adad IV 1

Shalmaneser I 09

Shalmaneser I 17

Shalmaneser I 18

Tiglath-pileser I 01

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Tiglath-pileser I 10

Tiglath-pileser I 12

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BM 137412

Aššur-dan I 1001

Aššur-dan I 1002

Aššur-nadin-ahhe II 1

Aššur-reša-iši I 01

Aššur-reša-iši I 03

Aššur-reša-iši I 05

Aššur-reša-iši I 06

Aššur-reša-iši I 1002

Aššur-reša-iši I 1003

Aššur-reša-iši I 1007

Aššur-uballiṭ I 1001

Eriba-Adad II 2

Šamši-Adad IV 3

Shalmaneser I 1001

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