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Adaside dynasty
The Adaside dynasty was the line of Assyrian kings from about 1700 to 722 BC, named for Adasi, father of the founder Bel-bani, and ending with Shalmaneser V.
Advice to a Prince
Advice to a Prince is a first-millennium BCE Akkadian admonitory text warning a king that neglecting justice and the privileges of Sippar, Nippur, and Babylon brings ruin.
Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III
The Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III are the chronologically arranged royal inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria, composed for his palace at Kalhu and narrating yearly campaigns.
Antakya Stele
The Antakya Stele, also known as the Tavla Stele, is a Neo-Assyrian stela of Adad-nirari III recording a border settlement between Ataršumki of Arpad and Zakkur of Hamath.
Ašipu
The ašipu, also spelled Ashipu or Asipu, was a learned exorcist-healer of ancient Mesopotamia, one of five scholarly professions serving temples and the royal court from the early second millennium BC.
Assyrian King List
The Assyrian King List is a cuneiform text listing Assyria's rulers from legendary ancestors to Šalmaneser V, known as the backbone of Assyrian chronology and anchored by the 763 BC solar eclipse.
Assyrian lion weights
These official bronze lion weights, originating from Neo-Assyria's Kalhu (Nimrud), were used to define the heavy mina and are now housed in the British Museum.
Assyrian royal annals
Composed in Akkadian, the Assyrian royal annals are inscriptions from the 9th to 7th centuries BC. They document Neo-Assyrian kings' military campaigns and are key to regional chronology.
Assyrian Timber Transportation relief
The Assyrian Timber Transportation relief is a set of alabaster bas-reliefs carved for Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad, Iraq) in the late 8th century BC, now in the Louvre.
Azekah inscription
The Azekah inscription is a fragmentary Akkadian cuneiform tablet from Nineveh, mostly attributed to Sennacherib's 701 BC campaign, describing the storming of the Judean fortress of Azekah and naming Hezekiah.
Balawat Gates
The Balawat Gates, also called the Gates of Balawat, are embossed bronze bands from palace doors at Balawat, Iraq, made under kings Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III in the 9th century BC.
Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II, also called Banquet Stela, is a sandstone stele from Nimrud recording a ten-day banquet for 69,574 guests around 879 BC.
Bārû
The bārû was a Mesopotamian diviner-priest who ascertained the will of the gods by extispicy, reading the entrails, above all the liver, of a sacrificed sheep.
Bārûtu
Bārûtu, "The Art of the Diviner", is a first-millennium BC Akkadian scholarly series on extispicy, divination from sheep entrails, with ten chapters and some 8,000 omens.
Bavian inscriptions
The Bavian inscriptions, also known as the Khinnis rock reliefs, are Neo-Assyrian rock reliefs and cuneiform texts carved for King Sennacherib at Khinis near Mosul, Iraq.
Bīt rimki
Bīt rimki (Bit rimki), Akkadian for "house of washing," is an Assyrian royal purification ritual in which an exorcist purified the king with water and prayers to Šamaš.
Bit-Laqe
Bit-Laqe, also known as Laqe, was an Aramean tribal confederation on the Middle Euphrates in the early 1st millennium BC, inheriting the territory of the kingdom of Khana.
Blacas ewer
The Blacas ewer is a brass ewer inlaid with silver and copper, made in Mosul in 1232 by Shuja' ibn Man'a al-Mausili and held by the British Museum since 1866.
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is an inscribed Neo-Assyrian limestone monument erected in 825 BC at Kalhu, best known for a relief of the Israelite king Jehu paying tribute.
Bucket and cone
The bucket and cone are a pair of objects held by winged genies in Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs, best known from Ashurnasirpal II's ninth-century BC Northwest Palace at Nimrud.
Calah Annals of Tiglath-pileser III
The Calah Annals, also called the Nimrud Annals, are the annalistic royal inscriptions of the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III, carved on his Central Palace at Kalhu, modern Nimrud, Iraq.
Dialogue of Pessimism
The Dialogue of Pessimism is an Akkadian dialogue in which a master and his slave debate a series of actions, with the slave endorsing each and its renunciation.
Enūma Anu Enlil
Enūma Anu Enlil, also written Enuma Anu Ellil, is the canonical Babylonian omen series for celestial divination, compiled in its present form around 1000 BC.
Eponym Chronicle
The Eponym Chronicle is an Assyrian text detailing annual limmu and events from 857 BC to 700 BC. It fixes regnal years for the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Esarhaddon's treaty with Ba'al of Tyre
A treaty between Esarhaddon of Assyria and Ba'al of Tyre, granting Tyre trading ports in exchange for Assyrian oversight of its politics, dated around 677 BC.
Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders
Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders are handmade clay horse and rider figurines of the Iron Age Middle Euphrates valley, peaking in the seventh century BC.
Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines
Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines are handmade, pillar-shaped clay human figurines of the Middle Euphrates region, peaking in the 7th century BC, with Karkemish as their main production center.
Gambulu
Gambūlu, also Gambulu, was an Aramaean tribe of the southern Babylonian marshes on the lower Tigris, attested chiefly in Neo-Assyrian royal records of the 8th and 7th centuries BC.
Great Prayer to Šamaš
The Great Prayer to Šamaš, also called the Shamash Hymn, is a 200-line Akkadian hymn to the sun god Šamaš, presenting him as the divine judge who sees all deeds.
Great Summary Inscription of Sargon II
The Great Summary Inscription of Sargon II is a Neo-Assyrian royal inscription carved on palace wall slabs at Dur-Sharrukin, surveying his campaigns, including the capture of Samaria.