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SAA 13 190. These Gods Should Go to Babylon (CT 53 141)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Šamaš-šumu-lešir. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. (6) When the king, my lord, sent me to the Land of the Chief Cupbearer and gave fields to his servants, in that city to which I ascended, in one temple these six deities were dwelling: Marat-Sin of Eridu, Marat-Sin of Nemed-Lagudu, Marat-Eridu, Nergal, Amurru, and Lugalbanda. (16) The people there told me: "These gods came with the king's father from Issete. The king's father said: 'I will send them with Bel to Babylon.'" (23) No one has spoken about this to…
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SAA 13 191. (no title) (ABL 0940)
(1) [To] the king, my lord: [your servant], Bel-šarru-uṣur, [priest of] Ekur. [May DN bl]ess the king, [my lord]. (6) The 12 [...]s which he/they [...] to the king, my lord. [NN and Be]l-ušabši (Break) (r 1) May [...] bless [...]
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SAA 13 192. Damage to Divine Furnishings (ABL 1212)
(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [When NN] and the men with him were bringing Šarrat-samme down from the temple, one of them slipped, and a leg of the ceremonial couch came in contact with the ground. (r 9) [Now] there is [a ...] (r 10) [...] the ground [...] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 193. (no title) (ABL 1243)
(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant, NN. Good health to the king, my lord. May Bel] and Na[bû] grant l[ong] days, everlasting years, happiness, and physical well-being to the king, my lord. (9) The middle entrance to the courtyard of the temple of Adad which they dismantled is [...]. (r 2) of their [...] (r 3) those who enter [......] (r 4) not [......] (r 5) to (the city of) [...] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 194. (no title) (CT 53 316)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] are strong. (2) [......] ... (3) [... which he/they will s]urround (4) [......] ... (5) [......] ... (6) [......] ... (7) [... in the p]ossession of the palace (8) [... in] the possession of the priest (9) [......] the cooks (r 1) [......] the [...]s (r 2) [...pl]us the storehouse (r 3) [... t]he priest (r 4) [...]
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SAA 13 195. Letters to the Palace (CT 53 406)
(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [... NN], son of the chief singer, is saying: "[......; I heard it] from the mouth of the temple ste[ward]. I and the chief singer have written a letter and sent it [to the pala]ce." (r 5) [NN], the horse trainer, says: "[I heard] from the mouth o[f ......]; the temple steward [wrote] a letter [about it to the palace]. Later [...]" (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 196. A Problem in Samaria? (CT 53 425)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] to the king, [my] lord [...] (2) [... NN], his legal [adversary, invoked] the right of appeal to the king concern[ing ..., saying: "[N]N who in Samar[ia comp]letely [...]. I will g[o ...]." Now [the king, my lord, should ...] to [his] servant[(s) le]st I die [......] (Break) (r 1) [... u]s [...] (r 2) [...] he/they do not [...] (r 3) [...] the image of the ki[ng ...] (r 4) [...] I have seen. The king, [my] lo[rd] (r 5) my [...] to the king, [my] lo[rd] (r 6) [...] a break of [...] (r 7) [...] is [in] fear [...] (r 8) [... which he/they] ... the king, my lord [...] (r 9) [...] all not [......] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 197. About a Divine Party (CT 53 452)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] The seal [...... the king] (3) my lord should command: "[......]" (4) their 'party' which [......] (5) let them bring; the servants [of ...] (6) should perform [...]. If there is fault [......]. (7) Now the king ... [......]. (8) The eye[s o]f the king are upon [......] (9) [No] one inter[cedes] for me [...] (10) and from th[is] silver [...] (11) [The king], my [lo]rd, knows t[hat ......] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 198. Counting Statues (CT 53 516)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) of/which [......] (2) [...] 2 statues of the king [......] (3) we made [......] (4) Total: 15 ... [......] (5) Total: 16 [......] (6) statue of [......] (Break) (r 1) 3 [......] (r 2) 102 [......] (r 3) 2 ... [......] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 199. (no title) (CT 53 544)
(1) To the k[ing, my lord: your] serv[ant, NN] (Break) (r 1) [in] my presence [...] (r 2) [...] constan[t ...] (r 3) He should [perform] the sacrifice. (r 4) It is the beginning of [...] ... [...].
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SAA 13 200. The Sacred Marriage of the Lord of the Lands (CT 53 601)
(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [......] b[ed]room (r 2) [...] Lord of the Lands, g[em(s)] (r 3) [...] (his) [...] in the bedroom (r 4) [which] he/they [...], he [...] (r 5) [......] there is (r 6) [...... bedr]oom [...] (r 7) a new [...] in the [bed]room (r 8) [...] in ... [...] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 201. Trampled Writing Boards (CT 53 622)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) writing boar[ds ...] (2) of boxwood [...] (3) was trampled upon [...]. (4) The writing board[s ...] (5) appeara[nces ...] (6) flesh [...] (7) he/they [...] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 202. Fragment Mentioning Harran (CT 53 653)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) to [......] (3) the gods o[f ......] (4) ... [......] (5) of/which [......] (Break) (e. 1) [...... to] 30 ye[ars ......] (e. 2) [...... to] the king, my lord I [......] (e. 3) [......] ... for the table [......] (e. 4) [......] ... the citizens of Harran [......] (e. 5) [......] ... [......]
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SAA 13 203. (no title) (CT 53 662)
(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) On the 10th day, the statues [...] (r 2) Total: statue of Marat-[...] (r 3) we have [...] (r 4) [...] ... [...] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 204. (no title) (CT 53 681)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) [which] he/they [...] (3) [...] their [me]ssenger (4) [...] within the bedro[om] (5) [...] spoke to [us] (6) [...] within ... [...] (7) [...] ... [...] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 205. (no title) (CT 53 738)
(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [... the sta]tue of the king [...] (r 2) [...] to [...] (r 3) [...] in the begin[ning ...] (r 4) [... t]o the ki[ng ...] (r 5) [......] ... [...]
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SAA 13 206. (no title) (CT 53 896)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) of the images [...] (3) which is before [......] (4) in the morn[ing ...] (5) in the temple [......] (6) they will plac[e ......] (7) of/which the king [......] (8) the magaz[ine ...] (9) in the house/temple [......] (r 1) Ti[......] (and) (r 2) Sin-[......], (r 3) brothers [of ......] (r 4) On the 9th o[f ......] (r 5) saying, "[NN] (r 6) the priest [... t]o [NN] (r 7) the temple steward [...] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 207. Priests’ Helpers (CT 53 899)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) May [DNN] bless [the king, my lord]. May Bel [and Nabû] give to [the king, my lord], a [life] of [lon]g days. [May the king, my lord, by] the command of [...] and [..., whose] shepherd[ship] is as eternal as [heaven and earth], exercise kingship [...] years of reign. (7) [As to what the king], my lord, wrote to me: "Make known to me the names of the priests [... and] the [...] of their gods [...]" — (11) [......] temple [...] (Break) (r 3) These are the ones who are stand[ing] in for their fathers: Ahu-riba, son of the boatman, Ahušina, chariot-[knight], and…
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SAA 13 208. (no title) (CT 53 901)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) We raised [them] from their places and lined them up on ... [...]. On the 16th, we will bring them [into ...].
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SAA 13 209. (no title) (CT 53 909)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] their [mess]engers [...] (3) [...] as follows [......] (4) [...] meat ... [...] (5) We did not see. The work about which [...] issued [an order] to us [...] (6) As much as we did not [......] (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 13 210. (no title) (CT 53 925)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) [... A]ssyri[a ...] (3) ... [...] ... to Nabû-iddina, (4) to Nabû-tartiba-uṣur (r 1) (Break) (r 2) [... l]ette[r ...] (r 3) [...] ... [...] (r 4) [...] ... day 14 (r 5) [...] ... day 15 [...] (r 6) I ... [...] of carnelian (r 7) My [sac]rifices to [...] (Remainder destroyed)
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(Beginning destroyed) (r 2) to the ki[ng ...] (r 3) in regard to the rite(s) [...] (r 4) let this [...] (r 5) [... o]f someo[ne/somethi[ng ...] (r 6) May [B]el (and) Nabû [bless the king], m[y lord]. (r 8) Nisan 15th day, [epo]nym year of Gabbaru.
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Ashurbanipal 001
Documents Ashurbanipal's forced resettlement of conquered populations into Egypt and the Levantine town of Qirbit — a concrete case of Assyrian demographic engineering as an instrument of imperial control.
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Ashurbanipal 002
Lists nine deities who legitimise Ashurbanipal's rule, each sponsoring a different royal quality — a snapshot of the theological machinery the Neo-Assyrian court used to underwrite imperial authority.
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Ashurbanipal 003
Claims divine sanction for Ashurbanipal's literacy — the gods granted him 'a broad mind' to master the scribal arts — embedding scholarly kingship ideology at the heart of Assyrian royal self-presentation.
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Ashurbanipal 004
Claims divine sanction not just for Ashurbanipal's military power but for his scribal learning — one of the clearest royal assertions that literacy itself was a gift of the gods and a mark of legitimate kingship.
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Ashurbanipal 005
Claims divine sanction for Ashurbanipal's legendary scribal literacy — a rare royal boast that a king personally mastered cuneiform learning, framing intellectual mastery as a god-given mark of legitimate rule.
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Ashurbanipal 006
Claims Ashurbanipal completed Esarhaddon's unfinished temples — including Eḫursaggalkurkurra at Aššur — framing construction piety as dynastic continuity and divine sanction for his kingship.
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Ashurbanipal 007
Records Ashurbanipal's restoration of Marduk's chariot and shrine roof, linking Assyrian royal piety toward Babylon's chief god to the ideological balancing act of ruling both Assyria and Babylonia simultaneously.
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Ashurbanipal 008
Documents Ashurbanipal's restoration of Sîn and Nusku to their temples and his refurbishment of sanctuaries across Assyria and Akkad, anchoring the king's legitimacy in cultic patronage rather than military conquest.
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Ashurbanipal 009
Attests the Sargonid practice of legitimating a crown prince through divine pre-election — Sîn's nomination in the womb — positioning Ashurbanipal's rule as cosmically ordained before Esarhaddon's formal designation.
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Ashurbanipal 010
Ashurbanipal's titulature — king of Assyria, Babylon, Sumer, and Akkad simultaneously — encapsulates the ideological claim that one ruler could hold the entire Mesopotamian world-order, north and south, under a single divine mandate.
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Ashurbanipal 011
Declares Ashurbanipal's kingship divinely foreordained from the womb by Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, and Ištar — anchoring Sargonid legitimacy theology in a chain of gods stretching from conception to coronation.
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Ashurbanipal 012
Records Ashurbanipal's lavish furnishing of Ezida at Borsippa — an ebony bed for Marduk, silver wild-bull guardians, and 83 talents of zaḫalû-metal — documenting Assyrian royal patronage of the great Babylonian sanctuaries.
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Ashurbanipal 013
Preserves Ashurbanipal's own account of his divine mandate, naming seven patron deities across Assyrian and Babylonian pantheons — evidence of deliberate theological synthesis at the height of Sargonid imperial ideology.
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Ashurbanipal 014
Fuses two registers of Sargonid kingship in a single text: the lone-archer lion hunt staged as cosmic spectacle, and the Addaru akītu-festival linking royal legitimacy to the queen of the gods.
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Ashurbanipal 015
Ashurbanipal claims the wisdom of the antediluvian sage Adapa as personal divine endowment — coupling scribal mastery with military might to justify one king's embodiment of both priestly and warrior ideals.
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Ashurbanipal 016
Chronicles the chaotic succession crisis in Elam after Urtaku's death — rival claimants dying of mouse-bite and dropsy before the demon-like Teumman seized the throne — framing Assyrian intervention as cosmic necessity.
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Ashurbanipal 017
Records Elamite court violence — the killing of Indabibi and enthronement of Ḫumban-ḫaltaš III — framed as divinely ordained Assyrian dominance, linking Sargonid royal ideology directly to datable Elamite dynastic upheaval c. 655 BCE.
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Ashurbanipal 018
Preserves Ashurbanipal's account of Elamite vassal Indabibi's submission — fragmentary but direct evidence of how Assyrian royal inscriptions legitimised dominance over post-Teumman Elam.
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Ashurbanipal 019
Documents Assyrian military operations against Elamite royal survivors after the fall of Teumman, then records a diplomatic rupture: Ummanigaš detained Ashurbanipal's envoy and broke off communication — a prelude to renewed Assyrian-Elamite war.
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Ashurbanipal 020
Records Ashurbanipal's desecration of Elamite royal tombs and the repatriation of Nanāya's cult statue to Uruk after 1,635 years — anchoring a precise, self-serving Assyrian chronology of divine abandonment and imperial restoration.
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Ashurbanipal 021
Lists cult centers and temple furnishings restored by Ashurbanipal — including Emeslam at Cuthah, seat of Nergal — documenting the king's systematic program of sanctuary patronage across Assyria and Babylonia.
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Ashurbanipal 022
Records Ashurbanipal's furnishing of Marduk's sanctuary at Babylon — an ebony bed clad in gold, silver pirkus weighing six talents each — charting the Assyrian king's calculated piety toward the Babylonian god after decades of fraught Assyro-Babylonian conflict.
LawMythologyAshurbanipal 023
(1) [For the goddess Mul]lis[s]u, exalted ruler, the pre-eminent one among the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods, the most splendid of goddesses, the que[en of que]ens, the Ištar worthy of praise, who is endo[w]ed with sexual charm (and) filled with awe-inspiring radiance, the supreme lady whose lordly majesty is the most outstanding (and) whose divinity is the greatest among the gods of [a]ll settlements, the very competent one, the lady of all things that (are found) in the whole (lit. “territory”) of heav[e]n and netherworld, [the one who holds] the bond of the bright firmament, who[se] place is…
LawMythologyAshurbanipal 024
(1) I conquered, plund[ered, ...] the city Birtu-ša-Adad-rēmanni, of/which [...] the Manneans.
LawMythologyAshurbanipal 025
(1) Teumman, <who>, during a loss of (all) reason, said to his son: “Shoot the bow!”
LawMythologyAshurbanipal 026
(1) Teumman, the king of the land Elam who had been struck during a mighty battle (and) whose hand Tammarītu, his eldest son, had grasped — they fled in order to save his (Teumman’s) life (and) slipped into the forest. With the support of (the god) Aššur and goddess Ištar, I killed them. I cut off their head(s) in front of one another.
LawMythologyAshurbanipal 027
(1) The head of Teum[man, the king of the land Elam], which a common soldier in my army [had cut off] in the midst of bat[tle]. They dispatched (it) quickly to As[syria] to (give me) the good ne[ws].
LawMythologyAshurbanipal 028
(1) Ur[t]aku, an in-law of Teumman who had been struck by an a[rro]w (but) had not (yet) died, called out to an Assyrian to c[ut of]f his (Urtaku’s) own head, saying “Come here (and) cut off (my) head. Carry (it) before the king, your lord, and obtain fame.”
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