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Land grant to Marduk-apla-iddina I by Meli-Shipak II
A limestone kudurru boundary stone in the Louvre recording a land grant by the Babylonian king Meli-Shipak II to his son Marduk-apla-iddin, dated 1186–1172 BC.
Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru
The Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru is a Kassite-period Babylonian stone stela recording a royal grant of income-bearing land, displayed in a temple and protected by divine curses.
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, also called the Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, is an Akkadian poem in which the official Šubši-mešrê-Šakkan recounts his disgrace, illness, and recovery through the god Marduk's mercy.
Maqlû
Maqlû (Akkadian for "Burning") is the longest anti-witchcraft ritual known from ancient Mesopotamia: eight tablets of almost one hundred incantations performed over one night and morning, burning effigies of witches.
Marduk Prophecy
The Marduk Prophecy is an Akkadian text in which the god Marduk recounts his removals from Babylon and prophesies a king who will restore him, probably written under Nebuchadnezzar I.
Michaux Stone
The Michaux Stone (Caillou Michaux) is a Babylonian kudurru, or land-grant stone, engraved under King Marduk-nadin-ahhe around 1099–1082 BC and recording a father's gift of a field to his daughter.
Middle Assyrian coronation ritual
The Middle Assyrian coronation ritual is a ritual text from Aššur, Iraq, preserved on about half of a clay tablet, describing the king's re-investiture as priest before the god Aššur.
Middle Assyrian Empire
The Middle Assyrian Empire, called māt Aššur, was the Assyrian state centered on Aššur from about 1400 to 1000 BC, rising to great-power rank under Ashur-uballit I.
Middle Assyrian Palace Decrees
The Middle Assyrian Palace Decrees, also called the Palace Edicts, are Akkadian regulations governing the Assyrian royal palace and its women, issued by nine kings and compiled around 1100 BC.
Mīs pî
Mīs pī, Akkadian for "washing of the mouth," is the Mesopotamian ritual for consecrating divine statues, in which a priest washes and animates the image as a living god.
Nabnitu
Nabnītu, also written SIG7.ALAN = Nabnitu, is an Akkadian lexical series of the canonical Mesopotamian corpus, known chiefly from Neo-Assyrian copies excavated at Nineveh and held in the British Museum.
Nippur Kassite archive
The Nippur Kassite archive is a hoard of about 12,000 cuneiform tablets from Nippur, southern Iraq, dated to the Kassite dynasty, roughly 1360 to 1220 BCE.
Poor Man of Nippur
The Poor Man of Nippur is a short Akkadian comic tale of 160 lines in which Gimil-Ninurta, a poor citizen of Nippur, cunningly takes revenge on the city's mayor.
Sag-gig-ga-meš
Sag-gig-ga-meš, also written Sag-gig-ga-mes, is a first-millennium BCE Akkadian therapeutic prescription series, written under the logogram SA.GIG and known mostly from 7th-century BC manuscripts made for the royal library of Ashurbanipal.
Second Dynasty of Isin
The Second Dynasty of Isin, also called the Isin II Dynasty or Fourth Dynasty of Babylon, was a native Babylonian dynasty ruling from Babylon between about 1157 and 1026 BC.
Stele of Meli-Šipak
The Stele of Meli-Šipak is a fragmentary stone kudurru of the Kassite king Meli-Šipak (1186–1172 BC), carried to Susa and re-inscribed by Šutruk-Naḫḫunte I; it is held in the Louvre.
Sun God Tablet
The Sun God Tablet, also called the Tablet of Shamash, is a limestone tablet from Sippar, dated about 860-850 BC, recording King Nabu-apla-iddina's re-endowment of Shamash's cult.
Šurpu
Šurpu, also known as Shurpu, is a first-millennium BC Babylonian and Assyrian ritual series, over a thousand lines long, for removing curses caused by transgression.
Synchronistic History
The Synchronistic History, also called the Synchronistic Chronicle, is a Neo-Assyrian narrative of Assyrian–Babylonian relations from the 15th century to Adad-nērārī III, composed around 800 BC and valued for its royal synchronisms.
Synchronistic King List
The Synchronistic King List, also called the Assyrio-Babylonian Synchronistic King List, is a Neo-Assyrian chronographic text from Aššur that sets Assyrian and Babylonian kings side by side as contemporaries, anchoring Mesopotamian chronology.
Tukulti-Ninurta Epic
The Tukulti-Ninurta Epic is a Middle Assyrian Akkadian narrative poem from the late 13th century BC, giving a biased account of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I's victory over Babylonia.
White Obelisk
The White Obelisk of Ashurnasirpal I is an Assyrian limestone obelisk in the British Museum, carved with reliefs of a king campaigning, hunting, and receiving tribute.