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~675 BCE

·Neo-Assyrian

SAA 4

SAA 04 142. Will Anyone Make a Rebellion against Prince Assurbanipal? (PRT 044) [military and political]

(1) [Šamaš, great lord], give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you! (2) [From this day, the ...th day of] this [mo]nth, Iyyar (II), to the first day of the coming month, Sivan (III) of this year, [for ... days and nights], the term stipulated for the performance of (this) extispicy — within this stipulated term, (4) [will (any) of the] eunuchs (and) the bearded (officials), the king's entourage, or (any) of his brothers and uncles, (5) [his family], his fa[ther's line], or junior members of the royal line, or the 'third men,' chariot drivers (and) chariot fighters, (6) [or the…

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~675 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 4

SAA 04 149. Should Esarhaddon Appoint Sin-nadin-apli as Crown Prince? (AGS 107) [appointment]

(1) Šamaš, great lord, give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you! (2) Should Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, strive and plan? Should he enter his son, Sin-nadin-apli, whose name is written in this papyrus and placed before your great divinity, into the Succession Palace? (4) Is it pleasing to your great divinity? Is it acceptable to your great divinity? Does your great divinity know it? (7) Is the entering of Sin-nadin-apli, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, whose name is written in this papyrus, into the Succession Palace, decreed and confirmed in a favorable case, by the command…

SAA 04 142. Will Anyone Make a Rebellion against Prince Assurbanipal? (PRT 044) [military and political]

SAA 04 149. Should Esarhaddon Appoint Sin-nadin-apli as Crown Prince? (AGS 107) [appointment]

SAA 04 157. Fragment Similar to No. 156 (AGS 119) [appointment]

SAA 04 160. Fragment Similar to No. 156 [appointment]

SAA 04 175. Fragment Similar to No. 156 (PRT 051) [appointment]

SAA 04 176. Fragment Similar to No. 156 (PRT 048) [appointment]

SAA 04 178. Should Prince Assurbanipal Appoint NN to an Office? (PRT 053) [appointment]

SAA 04 179. Fragment Similar to No. 178 [appointment]

SAA 04 186. Medical(?) Query Concerning Prince Assurbanipal [medical]

SAA 04 189. Fragment Similar to No. 188 (PRT 091) [medical]

SAA 04 190. Will the Queen Mother’s Illness Pass? (AGS 101+) [medical]

SAA 04 199. Fragment Similar to No. 187 (PRT 061) [medical]

SAA 04 213. Fragment of a Query (PRT 094) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 223. Fragment of a Query (PRT 098) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 235. Fragment of a Query (PRT 080) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 237. Fragment of a Query [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 238. Fragment of a Query (AGS 053) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 239. Fragment of a Query (PRT 066) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 244. Fragment of a Query (PRT 096) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 245. Fragment of a Query (PRT 097) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 252. Fragment of a Query [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 257. Fragment of a Query (PRT 086) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 259. Fragment of a Query (PRT 087) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 263. Fragment Similar to No. 262 [cultic]

SAA 04 264. Should the Statue of Marduk be Loaded onto a Boat? (AGS 104) [cultic]

SAA 04 265. Query Similar to No. 264 (AGS 105+) [cultic]

SAA 04 266. Should Assurbanipal Appoint NN as Priest of Marduk? (AGS 106) [appointment]

SAA 04 267. Will Chief Eunuch Recover Fortresses Lost to Manneans? (AGS 150) [military and political]

SAA 04 269. Query Concerning Ahseri, King of Mannea (AGS 024) [military and political]

SAA 04 272. Query Similar to No. 271 [military and political]

SAA 04 275. Should Assurbanipal Admit NN to his Entourage? (AGS 114) [appointment]

SAA 04 287. Should the Assyrian Army Wage War against Šamaš-šumu-ukin? (PRT 118) [military and political]

SAA 04 288. Will the Assyrian Army Prevail over Šamaš-šumu-ukin’s? (PRT 126) [military and political]

SAA 04 290. Will Šamaš-šumu-ukin Flee Babylon if Assyrians Take Sippar? (PRT 139) [military and political]

SAA 04 299. Should Nabu-šarru-uṣur be Appointed as Chief Eunuch? [appointment]

SAA 04 305. Should Assurbanipal Appoint Šarru-kenu to an Office? (PRT 124) [appointment]

SAA 04 335. Fragment Similar to No. 333 (PRT 125) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 345. Fragment of a Report [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 352. Fragment of a Report [unclassifiable]

SAA 08 001. Thunder in Ab, King Ill (RMA 257) [weather]

SAA 08 002. Venus and Mercury Setting (RMA 109) [planetary]

SAA 08 003. Eclipse of the Sun (RMA 274B) [eclipses]

SAA 08 004. Eclipse of the Moon in the Morning (RMA 271) [eclipses]

SAA 08 005. Evening Last of Venus (RMA 206) [planetary]

SAA 08 006. Jupiter and Cancer in Lunar Halo (RMA 093) [planetary]

SAA 08 007. Evening Last of Mars at Month’s End (RMA 021) [planetary]

SAA 08 008. Earthquakes in Adar and Nisan (RMA 264) [weather]

SAA 08 009. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 031) [lunar]

SAA 08 010. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 007) [lunar]

SAA 08 011. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 074) [lunar]