MAOG 11/1-2, 94-98

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Aššur's first imperial expansion.

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P282526 · ~680 BCE

SAA 20 005. Rituals on Shebat 23 (RIAA 308)

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P282529 · ~680 BCE

SAA 20 006. Rituals on [Shebat 23?] (RIAA 315)

“(1) [On the 23rd day the king performs] the ‘washing of the mouth’ [in the main room]. (2) [... they] p[ut a p…”

P282495 · ~1300 BCE

MAOG 11/1-2, 85-94

P282494 · ~1300 BCE

CDLI Lexical 002480, ex. 001

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)) — MAOG 11/1-2, 94-98. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P282496) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P282496..

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