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~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian

RINAP 5

Ashurbanipal 267

(1) For the goddess Su[tītu], his lady: As[hurbanipal], king of Assyria, prese[nted] (this object) for the sake of his life.

Law·Religion & Myth

~655 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 5

Ashurbanipal 268

(1) [Palace of Ashurbani]pal, kin[g of Assyria].

Law·Religion & Myth

~655 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 5

Ashurbanipal 269

(1) Palace of Ashurbanipal, grea[t] king, [strong king, kin]g of the world, king of Assyria.

Law·Religion & Myth

~655 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 5

Ashurbanipal 270

(1) Palace of Ashurbanipal, [great king, stro]ng [king], king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria.

Law·Religion & Myth

~627 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 5

Aššur-etel-ilāni 01

Aššur-etel-ilāni's dedication of baked bricks for Ezida at Kalḫu — framed as a life-preservation rite — attests royal temple-building ideology persisting into the final turbulent years of the Assyrian Empire.

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

~627 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 5

Aššur-etel-ilāni 02

Addresses Marduk as 'Enlil of the gods' and supreme arbiter of both Igīgū and Anunnakū — attesting the late Assyrian theological strategy of absorbing Babylonian divine supremacy into royal piety.

Ashurbanipal 267

Ashurbanipal 268

Ashurbanipal 269

Ashurbanipal 270

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Sîn-šarru-iškun 2001

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