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~1800 BCE·

Old Babylonian

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CDLI Literary 000561, ex. 004

obverse (fragment, three lines preserved): [A cl]od that has been bathed in water — dust has come into my eyes. A dog, when it gnaws a corpse, its chest heaves up. The great dragon (ušumgal), having smitten heads (i.e. having slain) [...] (remainder broken)

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

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)

Law

~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 [...].

Law

~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.

CDLI Literary 000561, ex. 004

OB Contracts, pl. G7 no. 69

SAOC 44, 96

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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-reša-iši I 06

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Aššur-reša-iši I 1007

Aššur-uballiṭ I 1001

Eriba-Adad II 2

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Shalmaneser I 35