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~730 BCE·

Neo-Assyrian

SAA 19

SAA 19 228. Regular Offerings (CTN 5 p. 307)

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [NN ......] (2) ...[... ......] (3) ...[......] (4) the men [......] (5) when the (cult) dais [......] (6) [...] oxe[n ......] (Break) (r 1) I (and) the [... official ......] (r 2) its/his ... [......] (r 3) saying: "Let him tell me! [Gird your] loin[s ...], but stay (here) and bring [...]. (r 4) They brought [...]. A seal[ed document ...] (r 6) regular sheep offering with one [......] (r 7) ... head [......] (r 8) has cu[t ......] (r 9) the (cult) dais [......] (Break) (e. 1) [......] ...... [......] (e. 2) [......] of m[y] lord [......].

Daily Life·Economy

~730 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 19

SAA 19 229. Men in Great Numbers (CTN 5 p. 292)

(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. The b]e[st of health to the k]in[g, m]y lord! (5) [...] are good. [PNf] go[es] to the interior. (7) Th[i]s [...] until we [...] (8) men in great numbers - this [...] which we will pl[ace]. (10) [...] ]men in great numbers [...]. (11) [M]oreover], they [ha]ve gone up a [...] terrain. (12) ...[... ...] they destroy (14) [...] shall we place (15) [... ve]ry (r 1) [...] his [...s] (r 2) [...] co[m]e down (r 3) [...] our [...]s. (r 4) The ki[ng], my [lord], knows [that ...] (r 5) in the forts [......] (r 6) of the for[ts ...] (r 7) the men of [......] (r…

Daily Life·Economy

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 1

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[maneser (V), king of Assyria]: five minas of the king. (Aramaic 1) Five minas (by the standard) of the land. Five (minas) of the king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 1003

(Inscription_1 1) Fifteen minas (by the standard) of the land. (Inscription_2 1) Fifteen minas [of] the king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 1004

(Akkadian 1) Palace of [Shalmaneser (V)], king of Assyria: one mina of the king. (Aramaic 1) (One) mina of the king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 2

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shalman[eser (V), king of Assyria]: three minas of the king. (Aramaic 1) Three minas (by the standard) of the land. Three minas of [the] king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 2001

(1) Belonging to Bānītu, queen of Shalmaneser (V), king of Assyria.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 2002

(1) Belonging to Bānītu, queen of Shalmaneser (V), king of Assyria.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 3

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[maneser] (V), king of Assyria: two minas of the king. (Aramaic 1) Two minas (by the standard) of the land. Two minas of the king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 4

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shalmaneser (V), king of Assyria: two minas of the king. (Aramaic 1) Two minas of the king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 5

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shalmaneser (V), king of Assyria: one mina of the king. (Aramaic 1) (One) mina. Mina of the king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 6

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[maneser] (V), king of Assyria: two-thirds mina of the king. (Aramaic 1) Two-thirds (mina) of the land.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 7

(Akkadian 1) One mina. Palace of Shalmaneser (V), king [of Assyria]. (Aramaic 1) (One) mina of the king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 8

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[maneser (V), king of Assyria]: one-fourth (mina) of the king. (Aramaic 1) One-fourth (mina) of the land.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~725 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 1

Shalmaneser V 9

(Akkadian 1) Palace of Shal[man]eser (V), king of Assyria: one-[fifth] (mina) of the king. (Aramaic 1) One-fifth (mina). One-fifth (mina) [(...)].

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 15 042. Feeding Hittite Deportees (ABL 1082)

[To the king, my] lord, your servant [NN]: / [May there be] well-being for the king, my lord. [Concerning] / the Hittites whom the king, my lord, [sent word to me about]: / 'You wrote to me, saying: the previous [rations] / of barley that were stored, x+[...] / have been issued — [...] / that was tallied before them [...] / I asked him — why [...] / the previous ones ate x+[...] / that to the king, my lord, [...] / their mouth(s) [...] / [I] wrote [...] / [...] x+[...] BÁN [...] / [...] ...[...]'

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 15 072. Adda-rami and Horses (CT 53 606)

[To the king], my [lord]: [your servant, Bel]-eriba(?). [Good health to] the king, my [lord]! […] Adda-rami […] brother(s)/allies […]… [… the king], my lord […] […]… […] they shut, they went out/took… […] which I took. […] they brought (it) by the road/on campaign. [… tr]uly, now […] horses […] 3 horses […] concerning 3 horses […] they became frightened / bolted. […]… […] (broken off)

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 15 105. Horses and Recruitment Officers of Calah (ABL 0127)

To the king, my lord: your servant Mannu-ki-Ninua ('Who-is-like-Nineveh'). Good health to the king, my lord! Let the royal bodyguard officer place (the recruits) at the disposal of the scribe (and) at the disposal of the recruitment officers; let them take their men and hand them over. The king, my lord, knows that the horses under my charge are dying. Let the king send me quickly one [of] their mules, for my use. As for the trainee grooms who came with me, I have placed them at the disposal of the recruitment officers. If the king, my lord, wishes to take charge of (conscript) them — the r…

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Sargon II 009

Claims Sargon II restored the šubarrû-tax exemptions and abolished corvée in seven southern Babylonian cities, documenting how an Assyrian king legitimised rule over Babylon by presenting himself as guardian of ancient urban privileges.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 043

Attests Sargon II's restoration of šubarrû-exemption rights to Sippar, Nippur, and Babylon — a deliberate policy of legitimising Assyrian rule over Babylonia by honouring ancient Babylonian civic privileges.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 050

Attests Sargon II's dual claim as secular world-king and nešakku-priest of Aššur, yoking imperial military authority to cultic legitimacy in the standard idiom of Sargonid royal titulary.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 053

Sargon II's own account of founding Dūr-Šarrukīn (modern Khorsabad) anchors the date and royal ideology behind one of antiquity's few purpose-built capital cities, completed c. 706 BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 054

Records Sargon II's founding of Dūr-Šarrukīn and the explicit theological rationale — divine favor securing his reign — behind building temples to Sîn and Šamaš within the new capital.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 076

Attests Sargon II's claim to have restored the šubarrû tax-exemption privileges of Sippar, Nippur, and Babylon — a calculated bid for Babylonian loyalty after his controversial seizure of power.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 082

Heavily fragmented royal inscription invoking Ea the creator alongside Sargon II's epithets: one of the manuscript witnesses preserving the theological vocabulary by which Sargonid kings legitimised their rule.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 083

Records the king of Meluḫḫa (Kush/Egypt) surrendering the fugitive Iāmānī in chains — the sole cuneiform witness to Assyrian diplomatic reach touching the Nile Valley in the 8th century BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 085

Documents Sargon II's founding of Dūr-Šarrukīn and the installation of seven major deities in its temple Eḫursaggalkurkurra, linking imperial city-building directly to divine legitimation.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 086

Sargon II's own account of his campaign against Merodach-Baladan II attests the Assyrian siege of Dūr-Yakīn (~710 BCE) and the Chaldean king's defensive tactic of withdrawing troops behind a second perimeter ten nindanu from the main wall.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 087

Records Sargon II restoring captive Babylonians of Sippar, Nippur, Babylon, and Borsippa to freedom and repossessing their fields from Sutian squatters — a calculated display of Assyrian benevolence toward the ancient Babylonian cult cities.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 089

Addresses Aššur as 'the Assyrian Enlil' whose judgment is absolute and whose oath cannot be broken — anchoring Sargon II's royal authority directly in cosmic law rather than mere military conquest.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 090

Dedicatory inscription to Anunītu, a martial aspect of Ištar, attesting Sargon II's cultivation of this relatively rare goddess as a personal divine patron during his reign.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 091

Attests Sargon II's campaigns against the Chaldean tribes of the southern marshes, situating Assyrian royal ideology — conquest legitimized by divine favor — within a rare coastal-frontier context.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 092

Documents Sargon II renovating a Nabû-and-Marduk temple at a northern gate, citing a 75-year structural failure since Adad-nārārī III's repair — concrete evidence of Assyrian kings invoking building history to legitimise their own piety.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 095

Sargon II dedicates a temple to Nabû and Marduk — Babylonian gods — listing five explicit royal goals, evidence that Assyrian kings cultivated Babylonian divine patronage to legitimize rule over the south.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 096

Attests Sargon II's construction of a Nabû temple at Nineveh, anchoring the scribal god's cult within the city a generation before Nineveh became Assyria's imperial capital.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 1006

Preserves fragmentary benedictions from a Sargon II royal inscription — a temple renovation dedication with curses against future desecrators and prayers for dynastic continuity, attesting the formulaic ideology binding Assyrian kingship to divine favour.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 101

One of Sargon II's royal inscriptions attesting Assyrian military activity near Qarqar — a site already famous as the battlefield of 853 BCE — extending the documentary record of Assyrian westward campaigns in the late eighth century.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 110

Stamps royal ownership in the formulaic idiom of Sargonid self-presentation — 'king of the world, king of Assyria' — one of the titulary witnesses that collectively map how Sargon II projected authority across his empire.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 2

Sargon II 123

Records Sargon II's restoration of Imgur-Enlil, Babylon's great circuit wall, casting an Assyrian conqueror as pious benefactor of Marduk's city — a calculated legitimation strategy after his seizure of Babylonia in 710 BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 002. Dealings with Arpad (CT 53 502)

(Beginning destroyed) (3) [As to what you w]rote: "[I will send my] rab-mūgi officer [to you]; speak [kindly] with the (king) of Arpad, and [let] your 'third man' [......]", (6) I adjure you by Aššur and my gods: you are not to send your [rab-mūg]i officer to me [under any circumstances! ...... (Rest destroyed)

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 003. The Wife of the Treasurer (CT 53 463)

(Beginning destroyed) (1) ... wrote to] you: "The wife of [the] Treasurer and [her] daughters should go [to] Assyria"; (4) you wrote the sealed royal order and dispatched it to Bel- duri, (but when) I sent my me[ssenger] to Damascus, [he] gave [him the wife] only. (9) I have written to [... abo]ut the daughters whom he he[ld back ... (Rest destroyed)

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 004. On Shirking the King’s Work (CT 53 834)

(Beginning destroyed) (1) ...] stay [in ......]. Now he has do[ne the work (incumbent) up]on you plus the work ass[ignment that was ... to] your [...]; [your servants tra]ded [the work ass]ignment with 21 [...] and shirked doing the work. (7) [You wrote me] that in addition to the 500 [logs of ...] and the 500 of [..., another ...] have been piled up on the river bank. [That's exactly] why the governor of Til-Barsip did [...]! I (gave the order): "These [should g]o to [...] Aššur-šarru-uṣur plus the [...] who are with him, and [...] the l[ogs into ...] of 40 (pieces) each." To no avail; [they…

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 005. These Nabateans are Yours (ABL 0305)

(1) The king's word to Ašipâ: As to these Nabateans about whom you wrote, they are at your disposal.

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 006. (no title) (ABL 0298)

(1) [The ki]ng's word to Ašipâ: I am [we]ll, you can be glad. (2) [The day] you see [thi]s letter, [...] Nabû-šeziban[ni ......] is surrounding [...... (Rest destroyed)

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 007. The Gods of Muṣaṣir (CT 53 340)

(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (3) [But shou]ld you say: "Let [the king, my lord] give [my gods] back to me [......!]" (then) quickly [gather and send me] information (and) [I will] soon [gi]ve your gods back to you. (7) [...] the city of Muṣa[ṣir]; stay there! The seiz[ing ...] of your gods [......] this [...] of mine [......]. Why [would] you not [...... (Rest destroyed)

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 008. Urarṭian Governor Defects to Assyria (CT 53 229)

(Obverse almost entirely destroyed) (12) As to what you [wrote to me: "[...... (13) def[eat ...... (14) As to what you wr[ote to me: "...... (15) to a ša-šēpi guardsman [...... (16) (Break) (19) [......] why [...... (20) [did] you [lay] hands on Mannaean territory [......? (21) [...] this favor [...... (22) [which ...] have done [...... (23) (Break) (b.e. 25) [As to ... what y]ou said: "I [...... (b.e. 26) [......] of the Mannaeans [...... (r 1) Is [there] a servant who does not [...] about [......? (Three lines erased) (r 5) [As to] this governor of yours about whom you wrote: "[......]" —…

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 009. Ullusunu on His Guard (CT 53 589)

(Beginning destroyed) (1) ... the city of A]rpad [......]. (2) Now, [let] Ullusunu [be] on guard for hi[mself ...]; and the letter [......] which I sent to you [......] within [...... (Break) (r 2) I said: "Ull[usunu ...... (Rest destroyed)

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 010. Urarṭian Emissaries Meet Captives (ABL 0306+)

(1) The king's word to Nabu-duru-uṣur: (2) Right now I am sending the royal bodyguard Mannu-ki-Aššur to those Urarṭian emissaries: he will bring them to Urzuhina in advance of these captives who are eating bread in your charge. (8) As for you, the day you see this letter, summon these captives; they should be on the alert, standing by, and the day Mannu-ki-Aššur the bodyguard writes to you: "The emissaries have arrived in Urzuhina, set the captives in motion," assemble the captives, go to Urzuhina, and entrust them [...] to the the [city-over]seer of Urzuhina. (r 1) [I am also sending]…

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 011. Building a Private Army (ABL 0304)

(1) The king's word to Mannu-ki-Adad: (2) 1,119 able-bodied men — all together they were 5,000 persons, those of them who have died have died, and those who are alive are alive — were given to the exempts of the Palace and entrusted as charges to your care. So why are you appropriating them, turning some to recruits, others to chariot-men, and others again to cavalrymen, into your own regular troops? (13) Have you not said to yourself: "When the time comes for me to summon them, to whose house shall I go for help?" (18) I am writing to you right now: You have sent many of them to the south and…

Daily Life·Economy

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1

SAA 01 012. The Story of Bel-nuri the Amiable (ABL 1042)

(Beginning destroyed) (2) "He is talking about [...] uprooting my father's house." [This] Bel-nuri cannot be trusted in what he says [...]; yet you lifted him and put him around your neck like a seal. For this very reason I relieved him of his office as major-domo, removed him and let you settle him in his house in the center of Arrapha. (9) What he did was perpetually slander Arrapheans in your presence and keep putting inhabitants of Arrapha to the sword. I consequently removed him from Arrapha and appointed him in Lubda. The same things again; he did not change his ways. (r 3) Bel-nuri is…

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