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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

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~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianOur engine

Aššur-reša-iši I 02

Records Aššur-rēša-iši I's construction at the Ištar temple in Nineveh, situating this reign within the architectural patronage that defined Middle Assyrian kingship's claim to divine favour from Anu, Enlil, and Ea.

Religion & Myth

~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianOur engine

Achaemenid Persian

Eriba-Adad II 1

Preserves the titulary of Erība-Adad II, attesting the full fourfold royal ideology — king of the world, Assyria, and the four quarters — at the dawn of the Middle Assyrian imperial self-conception.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1300 BCE·Middle BabylonianOur engine

Šamši-Adad IV 1

Documents Šamšī-Adad IV's restoration of the Assyrian Ištar temple at Aššur, anchoring the reign's chronology to a specific eponymy date and establishing the dynastic continuity he claimed from Tiglath-pileser I.

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

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

Tukulti-Ninurta I 1005

Tukulti-Ninurta I 33

Tukulti-Ninurta I 34

Tukulti-Ninurta I 38