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Son of Urdanum 2001
(1') [...] in [...] for the life [of] Urdān[um], his father, his (own) life, the life [of his] brothers, and the life [of] his children, an oven that brightens
Writing & LiteratureReligion & MythZarriqum 2001 / Amar-Suena 2001
(1) For the life of Amar-Suena, the strong man, the king of Ur, and the king of the four quarters (of the world), (and) for his own life, Zarriqum, the governor of (the city) Aššur, his (Amar-Suena’s) servant, built the temple of the goddess Bēlet-ekallim.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & MythSAA 07 084. Fragment of Precious Stone Record (ADD 1086)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [x] agat[e ...] (2) [x] papparmīnu-stone [...] (3) [x] chalcedony [...] (4) [x] chalcedony [...] (5) [x] carnelian [...] (6) [x] beet-like carnelian [...] (Rest destroyed)
EconomySAA 07 116. Account of Wool and Madder (ADD 0951)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......, Sam]aria; (2) [......], Calneh; (3) 30 talents, Arpad; (4) 100 talents, 2 talents, Carchemish; (5) 30 talents, Que; (6) 15 talents, Megiddo; (7) [1]5 talents, Manṣuate; (8) [x] talents, Ṣimirra; (9) [x t]alents, Hatarakka; (10) [x talents], Ṣuputu; (11) [x talents], Sam'al; (12) [x talents], the (province of) the commander-in-chief. (Break) (r 1) [......]hina; (r 2) [......, Tuš]han; (r 3) [......], Amidi; (r 4) [x ta]lents of red wool, 60 talents of madder ...; (r 5) [......] the deficit which is due from the magnates; (r 6) [......], Damascus; (r 7)…
EconomySAA 07 137. Account of Wine and Beer (ADD 0848+)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... be]er [...] (2) [......] beer [...] (3) [...] & beer & N[N] (4) [...] resin & jars of wine & U[še]bišuna, (5) [...] & the commander-of-fifty. (6) [...] & beer & Nabû-kuzub-ilani (7) [...] & beer & Ahu-lurši (8) [...] & beer & Nabû-ahhe-ball[iṭ] (9) [...] & beer & Hi-riba (Rest destroyed)
EconomySAA 07 138. Account of Wine and Beer (ADD 1049)
(1) [...] wine & beer & o[f ......] (2) [...] & beer & [......] (3) [...] & beer & [......] (4) [...] & beer [......] (5) [...] & be[er & ......] (6) [...] & b[eer & ......] (Rest destroyed)
EconomySAA 07 139. Account of Wine and Beer (ADD 1050)
(1) [re]sin & wine & beer & for 2 days (2) [re]sin & wine & Da[...] (3) [...] & beer & N[N ...] (Rest destroyed)
EconomySAA 11 010. List of Arrivals from the Provinces (ADD 0921)
(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (5) [...]taya : Arbela (6) [...]tubâ : Kilizu (7) [...]sanzi : Mannu-lušezib (8) [L]a-ṣahittu : Til-[...] (9) [...]matî : Ba[...] (10) Ina-Esaggil-gapšat : Ša-[...] (11) Nanaya-šarrat : Šima[...] (12) [Ina-x]-riššat : Na[...] (13) [...]ti-milki : Haurina (r 1) [...] : paternal house of [...] (r 2) [...]a : House of [NN] (r 3) [...-š]arru-uṣur : Lu[...] (r 4) [......] she has come, she [...] (r 5) [...]-ramat : Ar[...] (r 6) [...]nâ : [...] (r 7) [...]irtu : [...] (r 8) [...l]iyâ : [...] (r 9) [...]bâ : [...] (r 10) [...]-kudurri did not come (r 11) [......] I do not know (Rest destroyed)
EconomySAA 11 011. Persons Assigned to(?) Cities (ADD 0842)
(Beginning destroyed) (1') [Town of ...] — Du[...] (2') [Town of ...] — Daulî (3') [Town] of ... — Ṭubu-salum[u] (4') [Town] of Bet-Adad [...] — Baltunu (5') [Town] of Bel-na'id — Amuṣu (6') [Town] of Apka — Ilu-ušabši (7') [Town] of Šabire(šu) — Qurdi-Nergal (8') [Town] of Nemed-Issar — [......] (9') [Town] of Tupha — Sarpî (10') [Town of Til]lê — (at) the head of the door (11) [...]ayu — [......] (12) [...] — [......] (13) [...] — Abdî (r 1) [... — (at) the head] of the door (r 2) [... — Urda-N]anaya (r 3) [... — (at) the head of the] door (r 4) [... — ...]-ili (r 5) [... — (at) the head of the do]or (Rest destroyed)
EconomySAA 11 024. Harvest Record (SAAB 06 03)
(1) From on the 2nd of Nisan (I): (2) 133 sheaves — Nabû-[...] (3) 32 sheaves — Nuraya (4) 60 sheaves — Šumaya (5) 112 sheaves — Urda-Na[bû] (6) 73 sheaves — Ahu-lešir (7) 58 sheaves — Mullissu-iddina (8) 24 sheaves — Qite... (9) 4 sheaves — Nanî (10) 12 sheaves — Ami[...] (r 1) 2 sheaves — Aplaya (r 2) 3 sheaves — Šulmu-šarri (r 3) 1 sheaf — entrance supervisor (r 4) 1 sheaf — Ubru-Nabû, attendant of teams. (r 5) 1 bale — Bite' (r 6) From on the 6th of Nisan (I): Ahi-pada, cohort commander of ... — 3 bales. (r 8) 16th day: Hurea, Ahi-pada — 4 bales. Total: 8 bales. (r 10) Total: 515 sheaves (r 11) Total: 180 bales.
EconomySAA 11 081. Fragment of Sheep List(?) (ADD 0984+)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) 54, 56, total 110 — [...]. (2) 9, 41, total 50 — [Urda-...]. (3) 12, 8, total 20 — [...]. (4) — Total 1000[+x ......]. (5) [70], 9, total [79 — ......]. (Break) (r 4) [x], 0, 110, [x — ......]. (r 5) [x], 0, 50, [x — ......]. (r 6) [x], 0, 70, [x — ......]. (Rest destroyed)
EconomySAA 12 047. Fragment of Land Grant (NARGD 24)
(Beginning destroyed) (royal seal impression) (Rest destroyed)
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British Museum Cuneiform planisphere K8538
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Part of a circular clay tablet with depictions of constellations (planisphere); the reverse is uninscribed; restored from fragments and incomplete; partly accidentally vitrified in antiquity during th
Writing & Literature
Cuneiform cylinder- inscription of Esarhaddon MET ss86 11 55
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform cylinder; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
Writing & Literature
Cuneiform cylinder- inscription of Sennacherib describing his third campaign MET ME86 11 197
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform cylinder; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform prism- inscription of Esarhaddon MET ME86 11 277
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform prism; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform prism- inscription of Esarhaddon MET ME86 11 278
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform prism; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
Writing & Literature
Gilgamesh Tablet XI.svg
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Between 1845 and 1851 CE, Sir Austen Henry Layard uncovered the cuneiform library of King Assurbanipal in Nineveh. These texts, most of which dated to the 7th century BCE, were brought back to the Bri
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Sennacherib 001
Opens Sennacherib's royal titulary with its fullest ideological formula — just king, pious shepherd, warrior — anchoring Assyrian kingship theology at the moment he inherited Sargon II's contested throne.
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Sennacherib 002
A royal annals inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE) that opens with the king's full titulary and theological mandate from Aššur, attesting the standard Neo-Assyrian idiom by which military campaigns were framed as divine commission.
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Sennacherib 003
One of Sennacherib's earliest royal inscriptions, this text records his accession-era military campaigns and the full titulary — pious shepherd, guardian of truth, virile warrior — through which Assyrian kings performed legitimate sovereignty before god and subject alike.
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Sennacherib 005
Preserves Sennacherib's standard titulary — 'king of the four quarters,' 'perfect man, virile warrior' — and a dynastic renovation curse, documenting the formulaic language Assyrian kings used to legitimise rule and bind successors.
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Sennacherib 007
Documents Sennacherib's physical remaking of Nineveh — widened streets, a limestone-paved chariot bridge — grounding his self-glorifying inscriptions in datable urban-infrastructure works ca. 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 008
One of Sennacherib's royal campaign inscriptions, recording the ideological formula — pious shepherd, champion of the weak, warrior of Aššur — through which Neo-Assyrian kings legitimised conquest as divine mandate.
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Sennacherib 010
A royal titulary inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE) attesting his role as fashioner of cult statues for Aššur, Anu, Sîn, Šamaš, and Adad — direct evidence of the king's ritual responsibility for divine image-making in Assyria.
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Sennacherib 011
One of Sennacherib's royal titulary inscriptions, attesting his claim to have personally fashioned cult statues for Aššur, Anu, Sîn, Šamaš, and five other deities — linking military kingship to ritual restoration of the Assyrian pantheon.
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Sennacherib 012
Sennacherib's titulary here pairs his military dominion with personal stewardship of the major Assyrian cults, revealing how the king legitimised conquest through direct service to Aššur, Šamaš, and the pantheon.
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Sennacherib 013
Names Sennacherib as sculptor of cult statues for Aššur, Anu, Sîn, Šamaš, and five other deities, placing royal image-making at the centre of Assyrian piety and legitimacy ca. 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 015
Sennacherib's own account of his sovereignty, framed as a divine mandate from Aššur — the titulary language of 'guardian of truth' and 'aid to the weak' maps the ideological vocabulary by which Assyrian kings legitimised conquest as cosmic order.
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Sennacherib 016
Sennacherib's royal titulary in full ceremonial register — 'guardian of truth,' 'virile warrior,' 'bridle of the insubmissive' — shows how Assyrian kings wove divine mandate and martial prowess into a single ideological formula around 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 017
Sennacherib's self-presentation as cosmic shepherd and lightning-wielding warrior attests the formulaic theology of Assyrian royal legitimacy at the height of the empire, rooting military supremacy in the god Aššur's personal mandate.
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Sennacherib 018
Attests Sennacherib's receipt of tribute from the official of Ḫararatu — gold, silver, musukkannu-timber, and livestock — documenting the economic extraction that funded Assyria's western campaigns circa 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 020
Describes Sennacherib forcing Phoenician and Ionian captives to build Mediterranean-style ships on the Tigris, then portaging them overland to the Euphrates — a rare record of naval logistics adapted for landlocked riverine warfare against Chaldean Babylonia.
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Sennacherib 022
Sennacherib's own account of his kingship frames his authority as divinely mandated by Aššur — a template for how Assyrian royal ideology fused military dominance with cosmic and moral legitimacy around 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 024
Preserves Sennacherib's royal titulary and Aššur theology in formulaic detail, documenting how Neo-Assyrian kings grounded military authority in divine mandate circa 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 026
Chronicles Sennacherib's campaigns against Marduk-apla-iddina II and the Sidon succession — naming Tu-Baʾlu as Assyrian-installed client king, a concrete case of how Nineveh reshaped Levantine rulership circa 701 BCE.
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Sennacherib 027
Preserves Sennacherib's self-presentation as divinely ordained enforcer of justice and protector of the weak — the ideological scaffolding that legitimised Assyrian imperial rule around 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 028
Chronicles Sennacherib's systematic destruction and looting of enemy cities, adding a datable Assyrian royal voice to the archaeological record of Neo-Assyrian military campaigns ca. 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 029
Records Sennacherib's 701 BCE Levantine campaign — the deportation of Ashkelon's king, his dynastic replacement, and the sack of Philistine coastal cities — corroborating and expanding the biblical account of his western expedition.
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Sennacherib 030
Records Lulî of Sidon's flight by sea after Sennacherib's 701 BCE western campaign — one of the few Assyrian royal texts to name a Phoenician king's fate and corroborate the Biblical and classical tradition of that campaign.
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Sennacherib 031
Composite royal inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE) that pairs the king's epithets as champion of justice and helper of the weak with concrete tallies of captives and livestock — revealing how Assyrian ideology fused divine mandate with systematic plunder.
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Sennacherib 032
Records Sennacherib's founding of Kār-Sennacherib and his receipt of tribute from Medes 'of whose land no king, my ancestors, had heard mention' — pushing Assyrian imperial reach into previously undocumented Iranian territory.
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Sennacherib 088
A royal palace inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE), asserting the twin titles 'king of the world, king of Assyria' — the standard ideological formula projecting universal dominion from the Assyrian heartland.
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Sennacherib 089
A royal titulary inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE), attesting the layered epithets — great king, strong king, king of the world — through which Assyrian kings projected cosmic authority over a multi-ethnic empire.
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Sennacherib 090
A royal palace inscription of Sennacherib, asserting his titulary — great king, mighty king, king of Assyria — and anchoring the ideological grammar by which Sargonid rulers legitimised their authority over the ancient Near East.
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Sennacherib 092
Dedicatory inscription for Sennacherib's 'Palace Without a Rival' at Nineveh, attesting the Assyrian royal ideology that monumental construction expressed divine favour and legitimised kingship.
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Sennacherib 094
Attests Sennacherib's monumental rebuilding of Nineveh's double circuit of walls, the physical infrastructure that transformed the city into the definitive capital of the late Assyrian empire.
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Sennacherib 096
Attests Sennacherib's rebuilding of Nineveh's city wall, situating one phase of the capital's monumental expansion within his broader programme of urban transformation after destroying Babylon in 689 BCE.
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Sennacherib 098
Records Sennacherib granting his son a house tied to the construction of Nineveh's city wall — linking royal family patronage directly to the great building programme that defined his reign.
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Sennacherib 099
Records Sennacherib's grant of a house to his son Aššur-šumu-ušabši, tying a private royal property transfer to the ceremonial founding of Nineveh — evidence that dynastic patronage was embedded in the city's earliest building acts.
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