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Ubaid Uruk Period Early Dynastic Akkadian Empire Ur III · Neo-Sumerian Old Babylonian Old Assyrian Middle Babylonian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian Achaemenid Persian

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~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianRIAo

Adad-narari I 40

Marks Adad-nārārī I as builder of Aššur's Tigris quay wall, anchoring his public-works program in the archaeological and epigraphic record of early Middle Assyrian urban infrastructure.

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~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianRIAo

Adad-narari I 44

A palace inscription of Adad-nārārī I asserting the title 'king of the world' — early epigraphic evidence of Assyrian kings adopting the universal-sovereignty rhetoric previously claimed by Babylonian and Akkadian rulers.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianOur engine

Aššur-bel-kala 01

Attests Aššur-bel-kala's campaign against the land Ḫimme, preserving early Assyrian royal rhetoric of total destruction — flaying, mass deportation, corpse-mounds — that would define the empire's self-presentation for centuries.

Adad-narari I 40

Adad-narari I 44

Aššur-bel-kala 01

Aššur-bel-kala 08

Aššur-bel-kala 09

Eriba-Adad II 1

Šamši-Adad IV 1

Shalmaneser I 09

Shalmaneser I 17

Shalmaneser I 18

Tiglath-pileser I 01

Tiglath-pileser I 02

Tiglath-pileser I 10

Tiglath-pileser I 12

BE 04, 238

BM 090715

BM 137412

Aššur-dan I 1001

Aššur-dan I 1002

Aššur-nadin-ahhe II 1

Aššur-reša-iši I 01

Aššur-reša-iši I 03

Aššur-reša-iši I 05

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

Šamši-Adad IV 3

Shalmaneser I 1001

Shalmaneser I 1002

Shalmaneser I 1003

Shalmaneser I 1004

Shalmaneser I 1005

Shalmaneser I 1007

Shalmaneser I 19

Shalmaneser I 24

Shalmaneser I 28

Shalmaneser I 31

Shalmaneser I 32

Shalmaneser I 35

Tiglath-pileser I 04

Tiglath-pileser I 1002

Tiglath-pileser I 1003

Tiglath-pileser I 13

Tiglath-pileser I 21

Tiglath-pileser I 24

Tiglath-pileser I 25

Tiglath-pileser I 26