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~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian

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OB Contracts, pl. G7 no. 69

(obverse) ... [...] (illegible) Enlil-...-[...] (personal name) in Nippur [...] and Isin [...] the bala-service (rotational duty) performed, Ali-[...] he shall not raise a claim [...] he sw[ore] by the name of the king. [Before] Nūr-iya, the nigdaba (requisition) official, ... [...] [Before] ...-ummuhu, the merchant, son of [...] [...] ... (traces; remainder lost)

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~1792 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

SAOC 44, 96

(obverse) [...] ... barley(?), gur-measure(?) [...] at(?) the harvest(?) ... [It bears interest of ...] [...]-attum [...] ... has/bears [...] [...] ... [...]-tum(?) [...]-e [Before A]hi-ša-gimil (witness); before Lipit-Ištar, the scribe (witness). [Month]: Šu-numun (fourth month). [Year: Ha]mmurabi the king [... a statue(?)] whose face (was of) gold [...].

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~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianOur engine

Adad-narari I 01

Lists the cities and peoples — Kassites, Gutians, Lullumê, Šubareans — subjugated by Adad-nārārī I, documenting Assyria's territorial expansion toward the Euphrates and into Mitanni's former heartland around 1300 BCE.

OB Contracts, pl. G7 no. 69

SAOC 44, 96

Adad-narari I 01

Adad-narari I 06

Adad-narari I 1001

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Adad-narari I 35

Adad-narari I 44

Aššur-bel-kala 01

Aššur-bel-kala 08

Aššur-bel-kala 09

Aššur-reša-iši I 02

Eriba-Adad II 1

Šamši-Adad IV 1

Shalmaneser I 09

Shalmaneser I 17

Shalmaneser I 18

Tiglath-pileser I 01

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Tiglath-pileser I 10

Tiglath-pileser I 12

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Aššur-dan I 1001

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Aššur-nadin-ahhe II 1

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Aššur-reša-iši I 06

Aššur-reša-iši I 1002

Aššur-reša-iši I 1003

Aššur-reša-iši I 1007

Aššur-uballiṭ I 1001

Eriba-Adad II 2

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Shalmaneser I 1001

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Shalmaneser I 1003

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Shalmaneser I 35

Tiglath-pileser I 04