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Naram-Sin 01add

(i 1) Narām-Sîn, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Puzur-Aššur (II), vice-regent of the god Aššur.

~700 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 6

SAA 06 165. (no title) (ADD 0594)

(Beginning destroyed) (6) [He shall pl]ace [x minas of silver and] two minas of gold [in the lap of Iš]tar of Nineveh, and shall return [the money ten]fold [to] its [owners. He shall co]ntest [in his lawsuit] and not succeed. (r 6) [Witness NN], cohort commander of the queen. (r 7) [Witness Na]bû-na'id, ditto. (r 8) [Witness Ba]nunu, [ditto]. (r 9) [Witness Mann]u-ki-Issar-le'i. (Rest destroyed)

Law·Religion & Myth

SAA 12 001. Adad-nerari III Grants Land to Aššur to Provide Offerings (KAV 094)

(1) Seal of Aššur and Ninurta, seal of God the k[ing, ...] ... [......], which cannot be [contested]. (2) Adad-nerari (III), overseer, son of Šamši-Adad (V), [overseer], son of Shalma[nese]r (III), [likewise overseer]. (3) The towns, fields, buildings, orchards and people of [Šamaš-naṣ]ir, eunuch of Adad-nerari (III), king of Assyria, treasurer of Aššur, belonging to his eunuchship — Adad-nerari (III), king of Assyria, for the pres[ervation of] his [life] has exempted them and gi[ven] them to Aššur, his lord. (5) I have taken an area of 1,000 hectares of land in the province of the Inner City…

SAA 12 002. Possibly Part of No. 1 (KAV 117)

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] under Palil-naṣ[ir ......] (2) [......] Tillê; adjoining [......] (3) [... of ...]-Zarpanitu, princess; adjoining the town of Bel-iq[bi] (r 1) [... the temple of] Adad of Adian; adjoining the orchard [of ......; adjoining the or]chard of Dayyan-Inurta, governor of [...]; (r 3) [...] Aššur-bani-ahhe [...] (r 4) [... the v]illage manager of [...] (r 5) [... of N]aṣibina; adjoining the king's road that [goes] from Urakka to the bank of the [...] ri[ver]; (r 6) [...... un]der the prefect of Naṣibina; adjoining Suena [......] (r 7) [......]-Šamaš, the village mana…

SAA 12 024. Esarhaddon Grants Land to Provide Regular Offerings (STT 049)

(1) To [......] (2) [my] la[dy ......] (4) [I], Esarhaddon, [great king, king of Assyria], son of Sennacherib, [likewise] gr[eat] king, [king of Assyria], pondered in my heart [......] (7) ...[...] they go [......] (8) [...] ... house [......] (9) to ...[......] (10) to ...[......] (r 1) field ...[......] (r 2) An estate of 30 hectares of fie[ld ......] (r 3) An estate of 10 hectares of field [......] (r 4) An estate of 6 hectares of orchard [......] (r 5) for the regular offerings to her, as the responsibility of [NN, ...], (r 6) Atar-yatê, the [...], (r 7) Sin-kenu-uṣur, the tiller, [I…

SAA 12 036. Aššur-etel-ilani Exempts a Cohort Commander from Taxes (NARGD 14)

(1) [Aššur-etel]-ilani, [......, overseer; son of As]surbanipal, [......, overseer; son of] Esarhaddon, [......, likewise overseer]. (royal seal impressions) (4) After my father and begetter had dep[arted], no father brought me up or taught me to spread my [wings], no mother cared for me or saw to my [education], (7) Sin-šumu-lešir, the chief eunuch, [one who had deserved well] of my father and be[getter, who had led me constantly like a father, installed me] safely on the throne of my father and begetter [and made the people of Assyria, great and small, keep] watch over [my kingship during]…

SAA 12 048. Part of Land Grant for Temple Offerings (STT 044)

(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] the command of [......] (4) When this [......] town [...] (5) Zababa and Babu, the gr[eat] lords [......] (6) to [...] Sin (dwelling) in Harra[n ...] (7) I saw [the ... of] his power [and ...] the fear of his divinity. (8) In the month of Tishri (VII), I took the šigūšu-plant in my hand [and] cele[brated] a festival on the 8th day of Tishri amidst sweet music. (10) At that time — 23 rams, 2 bulls and 2 calves to be used as burnt-offerings on braziers morning and evening, 20 altars furnished with emmer wheat, 6 homers of wine, 6 seahs of wine for the drinking…

SAA 12 053. Fragment of Aššur-etel-ilani Type Land Grant (ADD 0752)

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [A]ttar-hu[tni, ......]; (2) 1 vine[yard, ......]; (3) 2 veg[etable] gardens; [......]; (4) 1 village in [its] en[tirety; ......]; (5) 100 (hectares) of field i[n ......]. (6) Abbâ and [his people, ......], (7) Abu-nuri and [his] peo[ple, ......], (8) Urda-Belet and [his] people, [......], (9) Samsi-nuri and [his] people, [......], (10) Han[un]u and his people, [......], (11) P[i]laqqu and h[is] people, [......], (12) Hašanu and [his] people, [......], (13) Remanni-Aššur and his people, [......], (14) Ṭab-ahhe and his people, [......], (15) Urdu and his people,…

SAA 12 068. Late Copy of a Decree of Tukulti-Ninurta for the Temple of Šarrat-nipha (PKTA 32-33)

(1) [...... Šarrat]-nipha (2) [...... Šarrat]-nipha (3) [...] All t[his is the ... of Šarrat-nip]ha: (4) [x litres of ...], 1 litre [of ... ... the pries]t of the bēt ēqi; (5) [......] great ...; (6) [......] the palace of the crown prince of the succession palace; (7) 1 litre of [...] bread [...] the baker; (8) 1 litre of [...] bread [...] the sons of the 'coiffured women.' (9) The cons[tan]t sheep offerings of the 5th day, the 7th day and the 15th day that are performed for Šarrat-nipha: [The priest] of Šarrat-nipha and the priest of the bēt ēqi [take] a breast, a shoulder, roasted meat;…

SAA 12 070. Unplaced Fragment of the Text of No. 69 (NARGD 45)

(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [...... x] litres of honey [......] (r 2) [...... to be hea]ted, of [......] (r 3) [......] the confectioner [takes] (r 4) [......] 7 seahs 4 litres of chick-peas, 3 seahs of lent[ils ...] (r 5) [...... refi]ned, 3 seahs of chick-peas, 3 litres of ordin[ary] lentils. (r 6) [......] second dipper, 2 litres of honey, 2 litres of [...] (r 7) [......] 1 litre ditto, 1 litre for [...]-flour (r 8) [...... they gi]ve. Total: 1 seah 7 litres of honey, 1 seah 7 lit[res of ......] divid[ed] with dippers [...]. (r 10) [...... t]o be heated. One litre of honey, 1 litre of…

SAA 12 071. Decree of Regular Offerings for the Aššur Temple by Adad-nerari III (NARGD 46)

(1) [Adad-nerari (III)], representative of Enlil, [overseer]; [son of Šamši-Adad (V)], representative of Enlil, [overseer]; [son of Shalmaneser (III)], representative of Enlil, [overseer]. (4) [When Adad-nerari (III)] instituted the regular offerings of Aššur, (and) [entrusted] them to [NN, the ...]; from the towns of the county of Burali, the county of Arbela, the count[y of ...] — (6) [The chief ...]: 50 carrying-sticks of pomegranates, 1 sheep for the kimru (offering) before [..., ......, x] wineskins, 4 shovels with their 'donkeys' [...], [x cups o]f oil for the provisions of the boatmen…

SAA 12 072. Fragment of the Text of No. 71 (NARGD 47)

(Beginning destroyed) (2) [The ... of] Buralli gives [......] of the wineskin rafts, [......] wineskin rafts sailing downstream, [...... si]x seahs of flour for the boatmen [......]. (6) [The ...] gives [......] the boatmen [......]. (8) [...... that the]y give (9) [...... to]wns (10) [......] establishes. (11) [......] the palace herald (12) [......] my [...] (13) [...... pa]lace (14) [......] the servants of the palace herald (15) [...... al]so give (r 1) [...... the coun]ty of Arbela. (r 2) [......] 7 seahs, the town Dunabu-Illil; (r 3) [......] 2 seahs, the town Tanat; (r 4) [......] of…

SAA 12 073. Prism Fragment Containing Part of the Text of No.71 (NARGD 48)

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] the chief of [......] (blank space) (2) [......] oil for the boatm[en ......] (3) [......] one ...-sheep, 12 ...[...]-sheep [......] (4) [......]s 4 cups of oil [......] (5) [......] ... [......] (6) [......] ... [......] (7) [......] Ši[...] River [......] (8) [......] rope [......] (Rest destroyed)

SAA 12 074. Fragment of Decree of Adad-nerari III (KAH 116)

(1) Adad-nerari (III), [......, overseer], son of Šamši-Adad (V) [......, overseer], son of Shalmaneser (III), [......, likewise overseer]. (Blank seal space) (4) Ten talents 15 min[as of ......] (5) labour dues [......] (6) under [......] (7) of [......] (Break) (r 1) Month [..., xth day], eponym year of [......]

SAA 12 080. Schedule of Wine Offerings by the Magnates to the Aššur Temple (KAV 079)

(1) Wine that the magnates give to the Aššur Temple — (2) 40 homers (from) Habruri, a golden pot per day; (3) 25 homers, Calah; (4) 35 homers, the wine master; (5) 40 homers, Dur-Šarruken, 2 pots per day; (6) 10 homers from Izalla, the wine master, 3 litres per day; (7) 12 jugs, first fruits, for the whole year, 1 per month. (8) Total 140 homers 8 seahs, 12 jugs. (9) All this is for the whole year. (10) 15 jugs from Izalla, first fruits, each month. (11) 74 wineskins, first fruits of Ti[shri (VII)]. (12) [x+]20 homers, the commander-in-chief; (13) [......], the chief cupbearer; (Break) (r 1)…

SAA 12 081. Schedule of Distribution of Meat from Offerings (PKTA 35)

(Beginning destroyed) (i 1) [..., ...], ..., the inner cuts, left (thigh), bladebone, 2 joints of the backbone, 4 ribs: all for the 'House of Many Kings.' (i 8) A haunch: the mausoleum of Ešarra-hamat. (i 10) The right thigh: the high priest. (i 12) 4 ribs: the second priest. (i 13) 4 ... coverings of thighs, 4 joints of the backbone: the priest of Ea-šarri. (i 16) The neck: the lamentation chanter. (i 17) A shoulder: the temple scribe. (Break) (ii 2) 2 [......], (ii 3) the stomach, [...], (ii 4) the hide, sinews, [...]: the hig[h] priest (ii 6) the front part of the neck, the heart, a lower…

SAA 12 082. Edict Appointing Nergal-apil-kumu’a (ARRIM 1, 13)

(1) [NN, overseer, son of NN], overse[er, son of NN, likewise overseer.] (2) [Whoever tries to contest a craftsman whom NN, king of Assyria, has given] to Nergal-a[pil-kum]u'a, (3) [be it a ..., a ..., a s]ervant or a ...[..., or a baker, or a brewer, or a confectioner, or sons of the cupbearers, or a ..., or a ...], or a wainwright, [or an architect, or a scribe, or a d]iviner, or an exorcist, or a physician, [or a smith, or a goldsmith, or a coppersmith, o]r an ironsmith, or a [...] (Break) (8) or the chief physician, [or] the chief singer, or [the chief ......] (9) [who tries to exercise…

SAA 12 083. Edict Appointing Nergal-apil-kumu’a (BaM24 239+)

(Beginning destroyed) (3) [he g]ives. If the ki[ng or a future king se]nds into exile or [...s a ..., a ..., or an 'enterer'], (5) the k[ing] may not say [......]; (6) they belong to Aššur. The [palace] mana[ger responsible for ......] (7) among the travelling zarriqus [...... o]f [his] province (8) [......]s or the zarriqus (9) [......] he himself (10) will [.... The towns, fields and orchards of ...] the king's sons (11) [...... of C]alah that are in his province (12) that [...... he shall return] and not give them [t]o their governor. (13) He himself shall apportion the [......], clothing…

SAA 12 084. Text Duplicating No. 83 (CTN 4 256)

(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (5) [......] the Halzeans [......] (6) [......]. If the king or [a future] king s[ends into exile or ...s a ..., a ..., or an] 'enterer,' [...] (8) [......] ... goodness to him [...] (9) [......; they belong to Aššur]. The palace manager res[ponsible for ...] (10) [......] he shall place. The [...] (11) [......] palace manager or [travelling] zarriqus (12) [...... he him]self shall .... The towns, fields and orchar[ds] (13) [of ... the king's sons, or the ...] ... or 'enterers' of the province of [Calah], (14) [who are in his province…

SAA 12 085. Adad-nerari Adds the Land of Hindanu to the Territory of Raṣappa (AAA 20 105+)

(1) [Adad-nerari (III)], [gre]at [king], mighty king, king of the world, king of [Assyria]; [son of Šamš]i-Adad (V), mighty king, king of the [world, ki]ng of [Assyria]; [son of Shal]maneser (III), king of the four quarters; (4) has assigned the [...] of the land of Hindanu to Pal[il-ereš], governor of Raṣappa, and [has ...ed (it)] to him. (6) No one shall change (anything) concerning (this) [......]. (7) The governor of Raṣappa shall rule the pref[ect of Hindanu]; he is his lord; he is [his ...; the prefect] is his agent. (9) No one [at any time in the future shall make any] claim against…

SAA 12 086. Sennacherib Dedicates Personnel to his Newly-built Akitu Temple (PKTA 27)

(1) The se[al of] Aššur, king of the gods; the seal of God the King, not to be contested. (2) I am Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, circumspect monarch, the perfecter of the forgotten cult of Ešarra according to the oracular command of Šamaš and Adad, the enlarger of their purificatory cult, the restorer of the protective deity of Ešarra, which had ceased to function, [to] its place. (Blank seal space) (5) In Nisan (I), when at the New Year's Festival, on account of chaos and anarchy, [A]ššur was going to the festival banquet in a garden within the city; (7) at that time,…

SAA 12 087. Sennacherib Dedicates Personnel to the Temple of Zababa and Babu (KAV 039)

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Concerning] Za[ba]ba I performed an oracular query and asked Šamaš and Adad. Šamaš and Adad announced to me "Zababa is the son of Aššur" in the oracle. I made the sta[tue of] Zababa and Babu conforming with his dignity, [...], and built a [(...) temple for th]em before the Tabira Gate. (r 1) Bel-ubal[lit, ...]-kenu, his adolescent son, 2 daughters, total of 5 people. (r 2) Nabû-šezib, [his] wife, [1] adolescent [son], 1 weaned son, 3 daughters, total of 7 people. (r 3) Nabû-šumu-ka''in, his wife, 1 weaned son, total 3. (r 4) Nabû-rešu-išši, 1 adolescent son, 1…

SAA 12 088. Gift of Sennacherib for Esarhaddon (ABL 1452)

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria — golden bracelets inlaid with ivory, a golden crown, a golden necklace, rings for the upper arm; all these pieces of jewellery, inlaid with agate, ..., and chalcedony, weighing 1 1/2 minas and 2 1/2 shekels, I gave to Esarhaddon, my son, who henceforth shall be called Aššur-etellu-mukin-apli, as a token of love. (r 4) (From) the booty of Bit-Amukani. (r 5) Let the one who trusts in you not come to shame, O Nabû.

SAA 12 091. Memorandum Concerning Votive Donation (STT 406+)

(1) [The servants of] Ištar of Huzirina, [that the king] has given [to] Nusku. (3) [NN], son of Se'-dillini, baker (4) [NN], cupbearer (5) [NN], ditto (6) [NN], cook (7) [N]N, [son of] Kabar-Dadi, ditto (8) Nasrâ, son of [Q]arhâ, [...] (9) Nanî, son of Li[...]su, [...] (10) Miniwî, so[n of N]N, [...] (11) [N]N, [son of B]alasu, [...] (12) [NN, son of N]N, [...] (Break) (18) N[N, son of NN, ...] (19) Qarhâ, son of [NN, ...] (20) Nušku-šezibanni, son of [NN, ...] (21) Bir-yatate, son of [NN, ...] (22) Našuh-suri, son of Adda-[..., ...] (23) Rahime-Dadi, son of Il-gab[biri, ...] (24)…

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

SAA 12 098. Aššur-reṣuwa Donates Property and People to Nabu (SAAB 01 59)

(1) To Nabû, great lord, his lord, Aššur-reṣuwa [has dedicated] for the preservation of his life and the prolongation of his days: a house in the city of Calah; an estate of 30 homers of tax-exempt land in the village of Mallaṣi; Remanni-Ištar, a farmer and 3 persons (of his family); Nabû-qata-ṣabat, Nabû-nashir and Ṣil-Nabû, a shepherd and 3 persons (of his family), with his sheep; Kapar-ili, a baker; an estate of 12 homers of land in the town of Urad-Ištar, the farmer ...... (Break) (r 14) May Marduk, king of heaven and earth [impose on him] a heavy punishment, [may] Gula, the great physicia…

Ṣilulu 1

(1) (The god) Aššur is the king, Ṣilulu is the vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, the son of Dakiki, (and) the herald of the city Aššur.

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

Zarriqum 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.