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Assur archive of Middle Assyrian texts
The Assur archive of Middle Assyrian texts is a body of cuneiform tablets from Assur, the Assyrian capital in Iraq, excavated chiefly by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft between 1903 and 1914.
Assyrian province of Hanigalbat
Hanigalbat was the Assyrian name for the former Mitanni heartland in Upper Mesopotamia, conquered in the 13th century BC and ruled by a grand vizier.
Babylonian King List A
Babylonian King List A is a damaged cuneiform tablet listing the kings of Babylonia and their regnal years, from the First Dynasty down to Kandalanu.
Babylonian star-catalogues
The Babylonian star-catalogs are systematic lists of stars and constellations compiled in ancient Mesopotamia, best known through the two-tablet compendium MUL.APIN, composed before about 750 BC.
Babylonian Theodicy
The Babylonian Theodicy is an Akkadian acrostic dialogue poem in which a sufferer debates divine justice with a friend who defends worship of the gods.
Bazi dynasty
The Bazi dynasty, also the Bit-Bazi dynasty, was the sixth dynasty of Babylon, a short line of three kings who ruled Babylonia from about 1005 to 986 BC.
Bīt mēseri
Bīt mēseri, meaning "house of enclosure", is a first-millennium BC Mesopotamian ritual series in which an exorcist expelled demons from a patient's house over four days.
Broken Obelisk
The Broken Obelisk, also known as the Obelisk of Ashur-bel-kala, is the upper part of a stone obelisk found at Nineveh in 1853 and now held in the British Museum.
Chronicle P
Chronicle P, also known as ABC 22 or the Chronicle of the Kassite Kings, is a Babylonian chronicle narrating Assyrian, Babylonian, and Elamite conflicts of the 14th to 12th centuries BCE.
Counsels of Wisdom
The Counsels of Wisdom (Akkadian Ummānu māršu imallik) is a Babylonian wisdom composition of about 150 verses, probably composed around 1200–1100 BCE and popular as a school text.
Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun
The Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun is a Babylonian polemical text, preserved on a damaged tablet from Uruk, denouncing the Chaldean king Nabu-šuma-iškun, who died in 748 BC.
Dynasty E
Dynasty E, also called the Dynasty of E, is the Babylonian King List's label for the kings of Babylon from roughly the tenth to eighth centuries BC.
Eclectic Chronicle
The Eclectic Chronicle, numbered ABC 24, is a Babylonian chronicle on tablet BM 27859 in the British Museum, summarizing Babylonian history from about 1080 BC onward.
Elamite dynasty of Babylon
The Elamite dynasty of Babylon, also called the Seventh Dynasty of Babylon, was a Babylonian dynasty consisting of the single Elamite-descent king Mar-biti-apla-uṣur, who ruled in the 980s BC.
Estate of Takil-ana-ilīšu kudurru
A Kassite Babylonian kudurru, or entitlement stone, engraved under King Meli-Šipak recording lawsuits that confirmed the estate Bīt-Takil-ana-ilīšu in Nippur to Ur-Bēlit-muballita(t)-mīti and his descendants.
Ḫulbazizi
Ḫulbazizi (Hulbazizi) is a Sumerian and Akkadian exorcistic incantation series from ancient Mesopotamia, recited by healers against demons and ghosts believed to cause disease, and worn as inscribed amulets.
Hymn to Gula (Bullussa-rabi)
Bullussa-rabi's Hymn to Gula is a 200-verse Akkadian hymn praising the healing goddess Gula, attributed to the Babylonian exorcist Bullussa-rabi and probably composed in the Middle Babylonian period.
Ili-pada archive
The Ili-pada archive, named for Grand Vizier Aššur-iddin (Ili-pada), is a Middle Assyrian archive of about 680 cuneiform tablets excavated at Dur-Katlimmu, modern Tell Sheikh Hamad in Syria.
Iqqur Ipuš
Iqqur Ipuš (Iqqur Ipus) is an Akkadian divination series whose title means 'if he destroys, if he builds', classifying months and days as favorable or unfavorable for activities.
Kassite dynasty
The Kassite dynasty, also known as the Babylonian Third Dynasty or Dynasty of Karduniaš, ruled Babylonia for over four centuries, from about 1595 to 1155 BC.
Kassite language
Kassite, also called Cassite or Cossaean, is the poorly attested language of the Kassites, who ruled Babylon from about 1595 to 1155 BCE; no connected text survives.
King of Battle
King of Battle (Akkadian šar tamḫāri) is an Akkadian epic about Sargon of Akkad's campaign against Purushanda in Anatolia, undertaken to rescue his oppressed merchants.
Kudurru (artefact)
A kudurru is an inscribed stone stela of Babylonia, produced mainly between the 14th and 7th centuries BC, that records and protects land grants, temple prebends, or tax exemptions.
Kudurru of Kaštiliašu
The Kudurru of Kaštiliašu, also known as the Kudurru of Kashtiliashu, is a Babylonian stone entitlement monument named after a Kassite king of the late Kassite period.
Kudurru of Marduk-zakir-shumi I
The Kudurru of Marduk-zakir-shumi I is a limestone stele-shaped kudurru recording a donation by the Babylonian king to a scribe of Uruk, dated to about 849 BC.
Kudurru of Nazi-Maruttash
The Kudurru of Nazi-Maruttash is a black limestone stele in the Louvre recording a Kassite king's grant of over 4000 hectares of land to the god Marduk.
Kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I
A kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I is an inscribed stone monument recording grants of perpetual income by Nebuchadnezzar I, king of Babylon ca. 1125–1104 BC, after his defeat of Elam.
Kudurrus of Marduk-nadin-ahhe
The kudurrus of Marduk-nadin-ahhe are inscribed stone entitlement monuments issued during the reign of Marduk-nadin-ahhe, king of Babylon, 1099–1082 BC, including the Caillou Michaux in Paris.
Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru
The land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru is a Babylonian inscribed stone monument commemorating a royal grant of land, part of a corpus of about 160 stones.
Land grant to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya kudurru
A Babylonian limestone kudurru of the Kassite period, recording King Meli-Šipak's grant of three settlements to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya, found at Susa and now in the Louvre.