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Statue of Ashurnasirpal II
The Statue of Ashurnasirpal II is a rare freestanding magnesite statue of the Neo-Assyrian king (r. 883–859 BC), found at Nimrud and now in the British Museum.
Stela of Ashurnasirpal II
The Stela of Ashurnasirpal II is a four-ton gypsum monument of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC), erected outside the Temple of Ninurta at his capital Kalhu, modern Nimrud, Iraq.
Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
The Stela of Shamshi-Adad V is a limestone Neo-Assyrian royal stela of king Shamshi-Adad V, found at Nimrud, Iraq, and kept in the British Museum.
Substitute king ritual
The substitute king ritual, called šar pūḫi, was a Neo-Assyrian rite in which a proxy was enthroned and killed to take an omen-predicted death in the king's place.
Sultantepe tablets
The Sultantepe tablets, also known as the Sultantepe archive, are about 400 Neo-Assyrian clay tablets found at Sultantepe between Urfa and Harran, excavated in 1951 and 1952.
Šumma ālu
Šumma ālu (Summa alu), short for ālu ina mēlê šakin, is a Mesopotamian text series of 120 tablets with over ten thousand omens observed within a city.
Šumma izbu
Šumma izbu (Summa izbu) is the Mesopotamian omen series on monstrous and malformed births, with 24 tablets of over 2,000 omens, best attested in Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh.
Šumma sinništu qaqqada rabât
Šumma sinništu qaqqada rabât ("If a woman has a big head") is a Mesopotamian physiognomic omen series, the fourth sub-series of the corpus Alamdimmû, reading a woman's body head to foot.
Tākultu
Tākultu, also known as Takultu, is a Mesopotamian ritual banquet performed for the well-being of Assur, Assyria, and the king, first attested in the 13th century BC.
Taylor Prism
The Taylor Prism, also known as the Sennacherib Prism, is a hexagonal fired-clay prism in the British Museum inscribed with the annals of King Sennacherib, written in 691 BC.
Tell al-Rimah stela
The Tell al-Rimah stela of Adad-nirari III is an Assyrian stone monument found in 1967 at Tell al-Rimah, Iraq, recording tribute from Jehoash the Samarian.
Tell Tayinat succession treaty tablet
The Tell Tayinat succession treaty tablet, or Tayinat treaty, is a cuneiform tablet bearing Esarhaddon's 672 BC loyalty oath naming his son Aššurbanipal as crown prince, excavated at Tell Tayinat, Turkey, in 2009.
Turtanu
The turtanu (Akkadian tartānu), a Hurrian loanword meaning deputy, was the commander-in-chief of the Assyrian army; by the 7th century BC the office was split between left and right commands.
Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince
The Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince, also called the Vision of Kummâ, is a Neo-Assyrian text in which the prince Kummâ dreams of the Mesopotamian underworld.
Zakutu Treaty
The Zakutu Treaty, or Treaty of Naqi'a, is a Neo-Assyrian loyalty oath by which dowager queen Zakutu secured the throne of Assyria for her grandson Ashurbanipal.
Zisurrû
Zisurrû (Sumerian ZÌ.SUR.RA) is an Akkadian term for a magic circle or line of flour drawn around a bed, house, or gate in exorcistic ritual.