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Page 1205 / 1496

~900 BCE·Neo-Assyrian

RIAo

Adad-nerari II 6

(1) [(Palace of) Adad-nār]ārī (II), strong king, king of the wor[ld, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-d]ān (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, [son of Tiglath]-pileser (II), (who was) also king of the wor[ld (and) king of Assyria: ...] ... [...]

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 07

Preserves Tukulti-Ninurta II's own account of a building project — specifying brick-course increments — adding measurable detail to the archaeological record of Assyrian royal construction between Adad-nārārī II and Aššurnasirpal II.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 1002

Fragmentary royal inscription of Tukulti-Ninurta II attesting Assyrian claims over Sūḫu and Dūr-Kurigalzu, tracing the mid-Euphrates frontier his son Aššurnaṣirpal II would later consolidate.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 13

Royal titulary of Tukulti-Ninurta II naming three generations of Assyrian kings, anchoring the dynastic continuity claims that legitimised early Neo-Assyrian imperial expansion before Ashurnasirpal II.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 15

Preserves Tukulti-Ninurta II's three-generation royal genealogy, anchoring his legitimacy to Adad-nārārī II and Aššur-dān II within the standard titulary of early Neo-Assyrian kingship.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 02

(1) [(The god) Aššur, king of al]l the [great] gods; [the god Anu, king of] the Igīgū and Anun[nakū gods; lord of the lands, the god Enlil, exalted one], father of the god[s; the god Ea, king of the a]psû, the one who decre[es destinies; the god Sîn, king of the lunar d]isk, lord of [brilliance; the god Adad, the] exceptionally [stron]g, lord of [abundance; the god Šamaš, ju]dge of heaven and netherworld, [commander of all; the god Marduk], sage of the gods (and) [lord of omens; the god Ninurta], warrior of the Igīgū and Anun[nakū gods; god] Nergal, perfect one, [king of battle]; the god…

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 03

(1) [(the god) Aššur, king of all the great gods; god Anu, king of the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods]; lord of the lands; the god Enlil, exalted one, [father of the gods; the god Ea, king of the apsû, who decrees destinies; the god Sîn, king of the lunar disk, lord of brilliance]; the god Adad, the exceptionally strong, lo[rd of abundance; the god Šamaš, judge of heaven and netherworld, commander of all; the god Marduk, sage of the gods (and) lord of omens]; the god Ninurta, warrior of the Igīgū and [Anunnakū gods; the god Nergal, perfect one, king of battle; the god Nusku, bearer of the holy…

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 04

(1') [the god Marduk], sage of [the gods (and) lord of omens; the god Nin]urta, warrior of the Igīgū and Anun[nakū gods; the god Nerga]l, perfect one, [king of battle; the god Nus]ku, bearer of the holy scepter, [circumspect god; the goddess Mill]issu, spouse of the god Enlil, mother of the [great] god[s; (and) the goddess Ištar], foremost in heaven and netherworld, [who is consummate] in the canon[s of combat]. (7') the great [gods], who take firm decisions, [who decree destinies, who ...] ... attent[ive] ruler, [...; (the gods) who] faithful[ly noticed me in] my mother’s womb (and) [altered]…

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 05

(1) I [entered] the mountains of the Naʾiri lands. I crossed Mount Sueia. I changed [direction] (and), on my return march, from the Naʾiri lands [I burned] fire [(...)] the city Ki[...]. I [uprooted] his sons, his daughters, his wives, the property of his palace, (and) his horses [and brought them to my city, Aššur]. (4) With the support of (the god) Aššur, my lord, I overwhelmed the lands, all of them, with my fear. Bi[..., ...].... of Ammi-Ba[ʾal], wrote to me: “With regard to Bialasi, I have sent my forces against him. [They pursued him and] he went from the city Udu to the city…

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 06

(1) [Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of the world, king of Assyria], son of Adad-nārārī (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-dān (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria; [...] to its full extent. The king who [...] (the territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the Tigris River to the land Ḫatti, [...] the Naʾiri lands to their (text: “its”) full extent, the land Sūḫu, including [the city Rapiqu, [(...); he] captured [... from the passes of] the land Ḫabruri to the land Gilzānu, Apâ, king of the city Ḫubuškia, [... H]e conquered (the territory…

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 09

(1) Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-dān (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria: stone slab belonging to the city Kaḫat.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 10

(1) Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), [king of the world, king of Assyria], son of Adad-nārārī (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-dān (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria: two-thirds mina of a … of a stone ...

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 1001

(1) Palace of [...], son of Aššur-[dān (II), …] al[l …] to [...] as far as the land [...]

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 1003

(1) (1 - 3) Palace of [...] king of the world, king of [...], son of Adad-nār[ārī (II), ...]

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 11

(1) Necklace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), king of Assyria.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 12

(1) [ Palace of Tukultī]-Ninurta (II), great king, [strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II)], great king, [strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-dān (II), (who was) also] great king, [strong king, king of the world (and) king of Assyria].

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 14

(1) Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), king of Assyria: I/he restored the dilapidated section(s) of the tower(s) of the gate of the god Enpi.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 16

(1) Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-dān (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~885 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Tukulti-Ninurta II 17

(1) Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king [of ..., son of Adad]-nārārī (II), king of [Assyria, ...]

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~883 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 018

(1') [In my accession year (and) in my first regnal year, after] I sat on [the throne of my royal majesty] in a grandiose manner, I mus[tered (my) chariot]ry (and) [extensiv]e troops. I [co]nquered inaccessible fortresses round about. I rec[eived] a tribute of horses from the land Gilzānu. ... [Because] horses were not (continually) brought in hither to me I [became angry and] marched to the cities Ḫarira (and) Ḫalḫalauš, which (were under the authority) of the guilty rulers. Those I conquered in the eponymy of Ashurnasirpal (II) (882) . I took out their property, booty, possessions, (and)…

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

Ashurnasirpal II 060

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BCE), preserved in the RIAo corpus as a witness to the formulaic and historical record of early Neo-Assyrian kingship.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

Ashurnasirpal II 061

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, whose annals collectively document the territorial expansion and brutal suppression campaigns that defined early Neo-Assyrian imperial statecraft.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 002

Preserves Ashurnasirpal II's titulary in full — the layered chain of divine election, genealogy, and universal kingship that legitimised Neo-Assyrian imperial ideology in the 9th century BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 023

One of the standard titulary inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, tracing his legitimacy through three generations of Assyrian kings and anchoring royal authority in a chain of divine election by Aššur, Enlil, Ninurta, Anu, and Dagān.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 033

Claims Assyrian dominion from Carchemish through the Euphrates lands of Lāqê, Sūḫu, and Rapiqu — pinning the westward reach of Ashurnasirpal II's campaigns to specific named territories in the mid-ninth century BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 047

Opens with the full Assyrian divine council — Aššur, Enlil, Ea, Adad, Šamaš — granting Ashurnasirpal II his kingship, illustrating how 9th-century Assyrian royal ideology fused theology with conquest legitimacy.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 048

Attests Ashurnasirpal II's invocation of the storm-god Adad as divine enforcer of a royal decree, linking Neo-Assyrian kingship ideology to divine sanction for legal or cultic obligations.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 055

Dedicates conquered wealth to the god Ninurta, linking Ashurnasirpal II's western campaigns to the theological claim that Assyrian expansion fulfilled divine will — a cornerstone of Neo-Assyrian royal ideology.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 056

Preserves the full titulary of Ashurnasirpal II — sun-king, world-trampler, chosen of Enlil and Ninurta — encoding the theological and imperial ideology that legitimised Neo-Assyrian expansion in the 9th century BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 057

Records Ashurnasirpal II's restoration of the Emašmaš temple at Nineveh, situating him within a chain of vice-regents stretching back to Šamšī-Adad and linking royal piety to political legitimacy.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 062

One of the corpus of Ashurnasirpal II's royal inscriptions preserved in the RIAo/ORACC edition, attesting the formulaic self-presentation of a 9th-century Assyrian king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 063

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, preserved in the RIAo corpus as a witness to the formulaic self-presentation of 9th-century Assyrian kingship.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 064

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, the corpus of which collectively documents the territorial expansion and ideological self-presentation of the early Neo-Assyrian Empire.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 066

Attests Ashurnasirpal II's full titulary and three-generation dynastic genealogy back to Adad-nārārī II, anchoring the ideological framework by which Sargonid kings legitimized conquest through divine appointment and hereditary authority.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 099

Dedicates an offering to Šarrat-Kidmuri, a goddess attested almost exclusively in Assyrian royal contexts, confirming her role in Ashurnasirpal II's dynastic piety alongside the better-known cult of Aššur.

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 100

Dedicatory inscription to Ea records Ashurnasirpal II consecrating a stone object for divine protection of his reign, throne, and lineage — a concrete illustration of how Neo-Assyrian kings negotiated power through temple patronage.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 1001

One of the surviving manuscript witnesses to an Ashurnasirpal II inscription that names Tukulti-Ninurta II, anchoring the commemorative text within the tradition of Assyrian royal self-presentation at Kalḫu.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 1003

One of the composite manuscript witnesses preserving Ashurnasirpal II's building activity, attesting the ritual language Assyrian kings used to legitimize monumental construction through divine sanction.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 109

Labels temple property as belonging to the Bīt-Kidmuri at Kalḫu, anchoring the institutional landholdings of Ashurnasirpal II's newly built capital to his dynastic lineage across three generations.

Writing & Literature

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 111

Attests Ashurnasirpal II's construction of Ištar's Nineveh temple, anchoring his reign within a three-generation dynastic lineage while documenting royal patronage of the city's chief cult.

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 112

Dedicatory inscription claiming temple property for Ištar of Nineveh, linking Ashurnasirpal II's legitimacy through three generations of royal titulature to both Enlil and Aššur.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 113

Three-generation royal genealogy anchoring Ashurnasirpal II to Tukultī-Ninurta II and Adad-nārārī II, each styled vice-regent of Aššur — the titulary formula that legitimised Neo-Assyrian kingship as divinely delegated office.

Writing & Literature

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 115

Standard titulary of Ashurnasirpal II anchors his three-generation dynastic claim — Adad-nārārī II, Tukultī-Ninurta II, himself — in stone, a formulaic assertion of legitimacy typical of 9th-century Assyrian royal self-presentation.

Writing & Literature

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 116

One of the royal inscriptions establishing Ashurnasirpal II's three-generation Assyrian lineage, a formulaic claim that grounded his legitimacy in an unbroken line of world-kings.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 118

Preserves the tripartite titulary — 'appointee of Enlil, vice-regent of Aššur, king of the world' — through which Ashurnasirpal II anchored his authority in both divine appointment and dynastic descent across three generations.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 123

Labels civic property of Kalḫu in Ashurnasirpal II's three-generation royal titulary, attesting the administrative machinery by which the Assyrian crown asserted ownership over its newly built capital.

Writing & Literature

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 125

Anchors Ashurnasirpal II's reign in a three-generation patriline — Adad-nārārī II, Tukultī-Ninurta II, Ashurnasirpal II — asserting dynastic continuity as ideological foundation for his aggressive territorial expansion.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 126

Dedicatory inscription linking Ashurnasirpal II's three-generation Enlil-appointed lineage to the Ištar temple at Nineveh, documenting royal legitimation through divine office and cultic patronage in the early Neo-Assyrian period.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 127

Anchors Ashurnasirpal II's legitimacy in a three-generation chain of divine appointment — each king named vice-regent of Aššur — illustrating how Neo-Assyrian titulary encoded dynastic continuity as theological fact.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Ashurnasirpal II 129

A standard palace titulary of Ashurnasirpal II anchoring his legitimacy in paternal succession — one of the corpus of RIAo inscriptions (Q004583) documenting how Assyrian kings constructed royal identity in stone.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

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