State Archives of Assyria

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• Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts — State Archives of Assyria 20 — The 55 surviving tablets and fragments of Assyrian royal and temple ritual, chanters' manuals, temple-duty decrees, and cultic records edited by Simo Parpola, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition.
• Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings — State Archives of Assyria 8 — The 567 surviving astrological reports sent by Assyrian and Babylonian court scholars to the kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal on the moon, sun, planets, and stars, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Hermann Hunger's 1992 print volume.
• Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea — State Archives of Assyria 3 — Fifty-two Neo-Assyrian literary tablets and fragments — hymns, elegies, love lyrics, royal epics, literary letters, and the Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince — in the State Archives of Assyria online edition.
• Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period — State Archives of Assyria 12 — 98 Neo-Assyrian royal land grants, tax-exemption decrees, and votive donations of land and people to temples, spanning Ashurnasirpal II to the fall of Assyria, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Kataja and Whiting's Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period.
• Imperial Administrative Records, Part I — State Archives of Assyria 7 — Two hundred and nineteen Neo-Assyrian administrative tablets from Nineveh — palace and temple inventories, ration and offering lists, and financial memoranda — in the State Archives of Assyria online edition, grouped by the print volume's own fifteen chapters.
• Imperial Administrative Records, Part II — State Archives of Assyria 11 — 234 Neo-Assyrian administrative tablets on provincial taxation, building works, military musters, deportees, and the Harran census, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Fales and Postgate's Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration.
• Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I — State Archives of Assyria 6 — 350 Neo-Assyrian legal contracts of sale, loan, and pledge from the royal court archives at Nineveh, spanning Tiglath-Pileser III to Ashurbanipal, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Kwasman and Parpola's Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I.
• Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II — State Archives of Assyria 14 — 479 Neo-Assyrian legal contracts of sale, loan, and pledge from the royal court archives at Nineveh, chiefly Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun (c. 680–612 BC), in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Raija Mattila's Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II.
• Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars — State Archives of Assyria 10 — The 389 surviving letters of the king's exorcists, physicians, astrologers, haruspices, and other scholars to the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition.
• Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal — State Archives of Assyria 13 — The 210 surviving letters from Assyrian and Babylonian temple officials and priests to the kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Steven W. Cole and Peter Machinist's 1998 print volume.
• Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths — State Archives of Assyria 2 — Fifteen Neo-Assyrian treaties and loyalty oaths, including the Esarhaddon Succession Treaty, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Parpola and Watanabe's Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths.
• Queries to the Sungod — State Archives of Assyria 4 — The 354 surviving extispicy queries and reports to the sun-god Šamaš from the reigns of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, covering war, court appointments, and royal health, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Ivan Starr's 1990 print volume.
• The Assyrian Prophecies — State Archives of Assyria 9 — The eleven surviving Neo-Assyrian prophetic oracles delivered mostly by women prophets in the voice of Ištar of Arbela to kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition.
• The Babylonian Correspondence of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal — State Archives of Assyria 18 — The 204 surviving Neo-Babylonian letters to the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon, Assurbanipal, and Sîn-šarru-iškun from northern and central Babylonia, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Frances Reynolds's 2003 print volume.
• The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I — Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States — State Archives of Assyria 21 — 161 Neo-Assyrian letters to and from King Ashurbanipal of Assyria and his officials concerning Babylonia, Elam, Urarṭu, and vassal rulers, including the correspondence surrounding his brother Šamaš-šumu-ukin's revolt, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition.
• The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I — Letters from Assyria and the West — State Archives of Assyria 1 — 265 Neo-Assyrian letters to and from King Sargon II of Assyria and his officials, covering the royal court, the western provinces, and the eastern and northern frontiers of the empire, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition.
• The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II — State Archives of Assyria 5 — Three hundred administrative and military letters to and from King Sargon II of Assyria on the empire's northern and northeastern frontier — chiefly intelligence on the rival kingdom of Urartu — in the State Archives of Assyria online edition.
• The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III — Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces — State Archives of Assyria 15 — 391 Neo-Assyrian letters to and from King Sargon II of Assyria concerning Babylonia and the empire's eastern provinces, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola's 2001 print volume.
• The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah⁄Nimrud — State Archives of Assyria 19 — 229 Neo-Assyrian letters to and from kings Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II of Assyria and officials across the empire, excavated at Nimrud (Calah), in the State Archives of Assyria online edition.
• The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 BC — State Archives of Assyria Studies 2 — The Neo-Assyrian roster of yearly eponym officials, 910-649 BC, and its companion year-by-year chronicle of notable events, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Alan Millard's SAAS 2.
• The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib — State Archives of Assyria 17 — The 207 surviving letters between the Assyrian kings Sargon II and Sennacherib and officials, city elders, and tribal leaders across Babylonia, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Manfried Dietrich's 2003 print volume.
• The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon — State Archives of Assyria 16 — The 246 surviving letters, petitions, and reports making up the political correspondence of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon and his court, in the State Archives of Assyria online edition of Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere's 2002 print volume.