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Tiglath-pileser III 63

(1) Palace of Tiglath-pileser (III), king of Assyria: two minas of the king.

Tiglath-pileser III 64

(1) Palace of Tiglath-piles[er] (III), great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of [Assyria].

Tiglath-pileser III Series A Annals

Beginning of the Annals missing (Frgm._A1 1) Precious scion of Baltil (Aššur), beloved of the god(dess) [(DN and) Šē]rūa, ..., creation of the goddess Ninmena, who [(...)] ... for the dominion of the lands, (...) who grew up to be king, ... [(...)] governor, [(...)] ..., the one who increases voluntary offerings for ..., ... [(...)] of emblems, (5) powerful male, light of all of his people, lord of [(...) all] rulers ..., the one who overwhelms his foes, valiant man, the one who destroys [(...)] enemies, who cuts (straight) through interlocking mountains like a (taut) string and ... [...] ...…

Law·Religion & Myth

Tiglath-pileser III Series B Annals

Beginning of the Annals missing (Frgm._1 1) [... I] adorned them (statues of the gods) and they (the gods) went (back) to their land. I rebuilt th[ose] cities. I built a city on top of a tell (lit. “a heaped-up ruin mound”) called [Ḫumut]. I b[uilt (and) co]mpleted (it) from its foundations to its parapets. [Inside (it), I founded] a palace for my royal residence. I named it Kār-Aššur, set up the weapon of (the god) Aššur, my lord, therein, (and) settled the people [of (foreign) lands] conquered by me therein. [I] imposed upon them [tax (and) tribute], (and) considered them as inhabitants of…

Law·Religion & Myth

Shalmaneser V 1

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[maneser (V), king of Assyria]: five minas of the king. (Aramaic 1) Five minas (by the standard) of the land. Five (minas) of the king.

Shalmaneser V 1003

(Inscription_1 1) Fifteen minas (by the standard) of the land. (Inscription_2 1) Fifteen minas [of] the king.

Shalmaneser V 1004

(Akkadian 1) Palace of [Shalmaneser (V)], king of Assyria: one mina of the king. (Aramaic 1) (One) mina of the king.

Shalmaneser V 2

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shalman[eser (V), king of Assyria]: three minas of the king. (Aramaic 1) Three minas (by the standard) of the land. Three minas of [the] king.

Shalmaneser V 2001

(1) Belonging to Bānītu, queen of Shalmaneser (V), king of Assyria.

Shalmaneser V 2002

(1) Belonging to Bānītu, queen of Shalmaneser (V), king of Assyria.

Shalmaneser V 3

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[maneser] (V), king of Assyria: two minas of the king. (Aramaic 1) Two minas (by the standard) of the land. Two minas of the king.

Shalmaneser V 4

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shalmaneser (V), king of Assyria: two minas of the king. (Aramaic 1) Two minas of the king.

Shalmaneser V 5

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shalmaneser (V), king of Assyria: one mina of the king. (Aramaic 1) (One) mina. Mina of the king.

Shalmaneser V 6

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[maneser] (V), king of Assyria: two-thirds mina of the king. (Aramaic 1) Two-thirds (mina) of the land.

Shalmaneser V 7

(Akkadian 1) One mina. Palace of Shalmaneser (V), king [of Assyria]. (Aramaic 1) (One) mina of the king.

Shalmaneser V 8

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[maneser (V), king of Assyria]: one-fourth (mina) of the king. (Aramaic 1) One-fourth (mina) of the land.

Shalmaneser V 9

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[man]eser (V), king of Assyria: one-[fifth] (mina) of the king. (Aramaic 1) One-fifth (mina). One-fifth (mina) [(...)].

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 15 042. Feeding Hittite Deportees (ABL 1082)

(Obverse) [To the king, my lo]rd: your servant [PN]. [Good] health to the king, [my] lord! [Concerning] the Hittites about whom the king, my lord, [wrote to me], saying: "You wrote [that] the previous [consignments] of stored barley [...] they have moved twice(?)" — [...] which were at their disposal [...] I asked him: "Why [...] did they eat the previous (rations)? [...]" What their statement to the king, [my] lord, was [...] I have (now) written [...] [...] the seah-measure [...] [...] ... [...] (Remainder broken)

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 15 072. Adda-rami and Horses (CT 53 606)

[To the king, my lord]: [your servant] Bēl-erība. [Good health to the king], my lord! [......] Adda-rami [......] on the other side [......]-iq [...... the king], my lord [..................] [......] ... [......] [......] they move about, with [......] [......]-imma which I took [......] they brought on the road (journey) [...... the tr]uth. Now [......] horses [......]... 3 horses [......] concerning 3 horses [......] they trembled [......] ... a [..................] (The text breaks off; the remainder is lost.)

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 15 105. Horses and Recruitment Officers of Calah (ABL 0127)

To the king, my lord: your servant Mannu-ki-Ninua. Good health to the king, my lord! Let them appoint a royal bodyguard (qurbūtu) to oversee the scribe and the recruitment officers; let them raise their troops and hand them over. The king, my lord, knows that the horses which were at my disposal are dead. Let the king quickly send me one riding horse each of theirs, to be at my disposal. The tarbiānu (household dependents) who came with me — I have assigned them to the recruitment officers. If the king, my lord, would take charge of them: they are with the recruitment officers in Calah (Kal…

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Sargon II 009

Claims Sargon II restored the šubarrû-tax exemptions and abolished corvée in seven southern Babylonian cities, documenting how an Assyrian king legitimised rule over Babylon by presenting himself as guardian of ancient urban privileges.

Sargon II 043

Attests Sargon II's restoration of šubarrû-exemption rights to Sippar, Nippur, and Babylon — a deliberate policy of legitimising Assyrian rule over Babylonia by honouring ancient Babylonian civic privileges.

Sargon II 050

Attests Sargon II's dual claim as secular world-king and nešakku-priest of Aššur, yoking imperial military authority to cultic legitimacy in the standard idiom of Sargonid royal titulary.

Sargon II 053

Sargon II's own account of founding Dūr-Šarrukīn (modern Khorsabad) anchors the date and royal ideology behind one of antiquity's few purpose-built capital cities, completed c. 706 BCE.

Sargon II 054

Records Sargon II's founding of Dūr-Šarrukīn and the explicit theological rationale — divine favor securing his reign — behind building temples to Sîn and Šamaš within the new capital.

Sargon II 076

Attests Sargon II's claim to have restored the šubarrû tax-exemption privileges of Sippar, Nippur, and Babylon — a calculated bid for Babylonian loyalty after his controversial seizure of power.

Sargon II 082

Heavily fragmented royal inscription invoking Ea the creator alongside Sargon II's epithets: one of the manuscript witnesses preserving the theological vocabulary by which Sargonid kings legitimised their rule.

Sargon II 083

Records the king of Meluḫḫa (Kush/Egypt) surrendering the fugitive Iāmānī in chains — the sole cuneiform witness to Assyrian diplomatic reach touching the Nile Valley in the 8th century BCE.

Sargon II 085

Documents Sargon II's founding of Dūr-Šarrukīn and the installation of seven major deities in its temple Eḫursaggalkurkurra, linking imperial city-building directly to divine legitimation.

Sargon II 086

Sargon II's own account of his campaign against Merodach-Baladan II attests the Assyrian siege of Dūr-Yakīn (~710 BCE) and the Chaldean king's defensive tactic of withdrawing troops behind a second perimeter ten nindanu from the main wall.

Sargon II 087

Records Sargon II restoring captive Babylonians of Sippar, Nippur, Babylon, and Borsippa to freedom and repossessing their fields from Sutian squatters — a calculated display of Assyrian benevolence toward the ancient Babylonian cult cities.

Sargon II 089

Addresses Aššur as 'the Assyrian Enlil' whose judgment is absolute and whose oath cannot be broken — anchoring Sargon II's royal authority directly in cosmic law rather than mere military conquest.

Sargon II 090

Dedicatory inscription to Anunītu, a martial aspect of Ištar, attesting Sargon II's cultivation of this relatively rare goddess as a personal divine patron during his reign.

Sargon II 091

Attests Sargon II's campaigns against the Chaldean tribes of the southern marshes, situating Assyrian royal ideology — conquest legitimized by divine favor — within a rare coastal-frontier context.

Sargon II 092

Documents Sargon II renovating a Nabû-and-Marduk temple at a northern gate, citing a 75-year structural failure since Adad-nārārī III's repair — concrete evidence of Assyrian kings invoking building history to legitimise their own piety.

Sargon II 095

Sargon II dedicates a temple to Nabû and Marduk — Babylonian gods — listing five explicit royal goals, evidence that Assyrian kings cultivated Babylonian divine patronage to legitimize rule over the south.

Sargon II 096

Attests Sargon II's construction of a Nabû temple at Nineveh, anchoring the scribal god's cult within the city a generation before Nineveh became Assyria's imperial capital.

Sargon II 1006

Preserves fragmentary benedictions from a Sargon II royal inscription — a temple renovation dedication with curses against future desecrators and prayers for dynastic continuity, attesting the formulaic ideology binding Assyrian kingship to divine favour.

Sargon II 101

One of Sargon II's royal inscriptions attesting Assyrian military activity near Qarqar — a site already famous as the battlefield of 853 BCE — extending the documentary record of Assyrian westward campaigns in the late eighth century.

Sargon II 110

Stamps royal ownership in the formulaic idiom of Sargonid self-presentation — 'king of the world, king of Assyria' — one of the titulary witnesses that collectively map how Sargon II projected authority across his empire.

Sargon II 123

Records Sargon II's restoration of Imgur-Enlil, Babylon's great circuit wall, casting an Assyrian conqueror as pious benefactor of Marduk's city — a calculated legitimation strategy after his seizure of Babylonia in 710 BCE.

Sargon II 004

Continued from several unpreserved slabs (1') I shattered their very strong walls [wi]th a mighty battering ram, leveling (them) to the gr[ou]nd. I took as booty [the people], [together] with their property. I destroyed, demolished, (and) burned down those cities with fire. (3') The people of the cities Sukkia, Bāla (and) Abitikna conceived (lit.: “deliberated”) an evil plan [that] was to eradicate (lit.: “to tear out the root of”) (their own) land and [g]ave [the]ir word to Ursâ (Rusâ), the Urarṭian, to do obeisance (to him). Because of the crime that they had committed, I deported them…

Sargon II 005

Continued from several unpreserved slabs (1') [... I offe]red [before them ... geese (and) ducks. I appealed to them (the gods)] in order to bring about the defeat of Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-Baladan), descendant of Yakīn, of Chalde[an] extraction, [the (very) image of an evil gallû-demon;] I prayed t[o the]m [with supplications and entre]aties. After I had carried out in full the festival of the great lord, the god Marduk, [...] Continued on several unpreserved slabs

Sargon II 007

(1) Pal[ac]e of Sargon (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Ak[k]ad, favorite of the great gods. (3b) The gods Aššur, Nabû (and) Marduk granted me a reign without equal and exalted my good reputation to the heights. (5b) I continually acted as provider for (the cities) Sippar, Nippur, Babylon, and Borsippa (and) I made restitution for the wrongful damage suffered by the people of privileged status, as many as there were (of them); I abolished corvée duty for (the cities) Dēr, Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, Kullaba,…

Sargon II 010

(1) Palace of Sargon (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; (5) the king who with the support of the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk ruled all together from the land Yadnana (Cyprus), which is in the middle of the sea, as far as the border(s) of Egypt (and) the land Musku, the wide land Amurru, the land Ḫatti (Syria) in its entirety, (10) all of (the land) Gutium, the distant Medes (who live) on the border of Mount Bikni, the lands Ellipi (and) Rāši on the border of the land Elam, all the Arameans who live…

Sargon II 011

(1) Palace of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; (3) the king who with the support of the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk ruled all together from the land Yadnana (Cyprus), which is in the middle of the Western Sea, (5) as far as the border(s) of Egypt and the land Musku, the wide land Amurru, the land Ḫatti (Syria) in its entirety, all of (the land) Gutium, the distant Medes (who live) on the border of Mount Bikni, the lands Ellipi (and) Rāši on the border of the land Elam, (10) all the Arameans who live beside the…

Sargon II 012

(1) Palace of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; (4) the king who with the support of the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk, ruled (lit.: “I ruled”) all together from the land Yadnana (Cyprus), which is in the middle of the Western Sea, as far as the border(s) of Egypt and the land Musku, the wide land Amurru, the land Ḫatti (Syria) in its entirety, (10) all of (the land) Gutium, the distant Medes (who live) on the border of Mount Bikni, the lands Ellipi (and) Rāši on the border of the land Elam, all the Arameans who live…

Sargon II 013

(1) Palace of Sargon (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, favorite of the great gods; (5) who provides for (the cities) Sippar, Nippur, (and) Babylon; who abolished corvée duty for (the cities) Dēr, Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, Kullaba, Kissik, (and) Nēmed-Laguda (and) who gave relief to their people; who (re)-established the privileged status (10) of (the city) Baltil (Aššur) that had lapsed; who extended his protection over the city Ḫarrān and recorded their exemption (from obligations) as if (its people…

Sargon II 014

(1) Palace of Sargon (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, favorite of the great gods. (4b) I continually act[ed] as provider for (the cities) Sippar, Nippur, Babylon, and Borsippa; I [(re)-established] the freedom (from obligations) of (the cities) Dēr, Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, Kulla[ba], Kissik, (and) Nēmed-La[gu]da. I restored the exemption (from obligations) of (the city) [Bal]til (Aššur) (10) and [the city] Ḫarrā[n], which had fallen into [oblivion] in the distant [pa]st, and [their privile]ged status…