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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

Aššur-etel-ilāni 01

Aššur-etel-ilāni 02

Aššur-etel-ilāni 03

Aššur-etel-ilāni 04

Aššur-etel-ilāni 05

Aššur-etel-ilāni 06

Sîn-šarru-iškun 01

Sîn-šarru-iškun 02

Sîn-šarru-iškun 03

Sîn-šarru-iškun 04

Sîn-šarru-iškun 05

Sîn-šarru-iškun 07

Sîn-šarru-iškun 13

Sîn-šarru-iškun 19

Sîn-šarru-iškun 06

Sîn-šarru-iškun 08

Sîn-šarru-iškun 09

Sîn-šarru-iškun 10

Sîn-šarru-iškun 11

Sîn-šarru-iškun 12

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Sîn-šarru-iškun 15

Sîn-šarru-iškun 16

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Sîn-šarru-iškun 18

Sîn-šarru-iškun 20

Sîn-šarru-iškun 2001

Sîn-šarru-iškun 21

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 03

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 04

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 05

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 07

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 08

CUSAS 15, 067

CUSAS 15, 184