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House of Succession
The House of Succession (Akkadian bīt redûti) was the residence and establishment of the Neo-Assyrian crown prince, flourishing under Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal between 721 and 627 BC.
Iran Stele
The Iran Stele, or Iran Stela of Tiglath-pileser III, is a fragmentary Neo-Assyrian royal stele from western Iran, composed in 737 BC during the Median campaign.
Iškar Zaqīqu
Iškar Zaqīqu, also known as Iskar Zaqiqu, is an Akkadian compendium of dream interpretation assembled in the Neo-Assyrian period and preserved in King Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh.
Jerusalem Prism
The Jerusalem Prism is a hexagonal baked-clay prism in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, inscribed with the annals of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, dated to 691 BCE.
Khorsabad Annals
The Khorsabad Annals, also called the Annals of Sargon II, are annalistic royal inscriptions engraved on wall slabs of Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad in Iraq.
Kurkh Monolith
The Kurkh Monolith is a stone stele of Assyrian king Shalmaneser III found at Kurkh in Turkey, bearing the most detailed account of the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BCE.
Letter of Sargon II to Ashur
The Letter of Sargon II to Ashur is the only complete surviving Neo-Assyrian royal letter to a god, a clay tablet reporting Sargon II's 714 BC campaign against Urartu.
Mona Lisa of Nimrud
The 'Mona Lisa' of Nimrud, also called the Lady of the Well, is a carved ivory head of a woman found at Nimrud, Iraq, in 1952.
Namburbi
A namburbi is an Akkadian apotropaic ritual text of the first millennium BC, performed by an exorcist to avert the evil foretold by an omen, with over 140 tablets known.
Nimrud Ivories
The Nimrud ivories, also called the Kalhu ivories, are carved ivory plaques and furniture panels excavated at Nimrud, Iraq, mostly imported from Phoenician and Syrian workshops.
Nimrud lens
The Nimrud lens, also called the Layard lens, is a polished rock crystal object unearthed by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud, Iraq, in 1850 and dated 750–710 BC.
Nimrud Letters
The Nimrud Letters are an archive of over 300 cuneiform tablets of Neo-Assyrian royal correspondence, chiefly of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II, excavated at Nimrud, Iraq, in 1952.
Nimrud Prism
The Nimrud Prism of Esarhaddon is a six-sided clay prism whose cuneiform text records the Neo-Assyrian king Esarhaddon's palace construction at Nimrud in the 7th century BCE.
Nimrud Slab of Ashurnasirpal II
The Nimrud Slab of Ashurnasirpal II is a carved stone slab bearing a royal display inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, found at Nimrud, Iraq.
Nimrud Tablet K.3751
Nimrud Tablet K.3751 is a clay tablet from Nimrud, Iraq, inscribed with a summary inscription of King Tiglath-pileser III (745–727 BC), the best preserved of its kind.
Nimrud Wine Lists
The Nimrud Wine Lists, also called the Kalhu wine lists, are Neo-Assyrian administrative tablets from Fort Shalmaneser at Nimrud, Iraq, recording wine rations in the 8th century BC.
Pazarcık Stele
The Pazarcık Stele (Pazarcik Stela) is an Assyrian cuneiform boundary stone found at Kızıkapanlı near Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, marking the border between Kummuh and Gurgum.
Pomegranate carved in the round
The pomegranate carved in the round is a small Neo-Assyrian ivory ornament from Nimrud, dating to the ninth or eighth century BCE and held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Prisms of Sargon II
The Prisms of Sargon II, also known as Sargon II's Prisms, are clay prisms inscribed with the annals of Sargon II, king of Assyria (721–705 BCE), found at Nimrud and Nineveh.
Puqudu
Puqudu (Puqūdu) was an Aramean tribe of the Babylonian borderlands, attested from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (745–727 BC) and identified with the biblical Pekod.
Rabsaris
Rabsaris (Hebrew רַב־סָרִיס, Rab-saris) is the Hebrew and Aramaic form of the Akkadian court title rab ša rēši, a high-ranking official of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires.
Rassam Cylinder
The Rassam Cylinder, also called Prism A, is a ten-sided clay prism inscribed with the annals of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, found at Nineveh in 1854.
Rassam Obelisk
The Rassam Obelisk is a fragmentary basalt obelisk of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, found in many pieces at Nimrud in 1853 and reconstructed for the British Museum.
Resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
The resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire was a state program of mass deportation that moved millions of people between the 9th and late 7th century BC.
Šà.zi.ga
Šà.zi.ga (Sa.zi.ga), Akkadian nīš libbi, is a group of Mesopotamian incantations and rituals meant to recover male sexual desire, attested from the second millennium BC.
Saba'a Stele
The Saba'a Stele, or Saba'a stela of Adad-nirari III, is a Neo-Assyrian inscription of King Adad-nērārī III found in 1905 in northern Iraq, now in Istanbul.
Sargonid dynasty
The Sargonid dynasty was the last ruling house of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, founded by Sargon II in 721 BC and ending with the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Sin of Sargon
The Sin of Sargon is a fragmentary Neo-Assyrian text in which Sennacherib uses extispicy to find the sin that caused the gods to abandon Sargon II.
State Archives of Assyria
The State Archives of Assyria is a Helsinki series, running 1987 to 2024, of critical editions of Neo-Assyrian cuneiform texts, chiefly from Nineveh's royal archives.
State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the royal relay system of letters and messengers linking the king to his governors and commanders, evidenced by about 3,000 surviving letters.