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~800 BCE·

Achaemenid Persian

Neo-Assyrian

RIAo

Adad-nerari III 2008 / CDLI Seals 009581

(1) Seal of [Aš]šur-bēlu-uṣur, eunuch of Pālil-ēreš, the governor of the land Raṣappa.

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~800 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Adad-nerari III 2009

(1) He gave (this) to Ištar-dūrī, eunuch of Nergal-ilāʾī (and) field marshal, his protector. Property of Bīrtāyu, eunuch of Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria.

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~800 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Adad-nerari III 2010

(1) The god Aššur, the great lord, the king of the gods [who] decrees destinies; the god Anu, the mighty (and) foremost one, the ancestor of the great gods; the god Enlil, the father of the gods, the lord of the lands who makes kingship great; the god Ea, the wise one, the king of the apsû who grants wisdom; (5) the god Marduk, the sage of the gods, the lord of omens, the commander of all; the god Nabû, the scribe of Esagil, the possessor of the tablet of destinies of [the gods] who resolves differences; [the god] Sîn, the luminary [of heaven and netherworld], the lord of the lunar disk who…

Adad-nerari III 2008 / CDLI Seals 009581

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