Shalmaneser 1 Documents with Multiple Eponyms

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There are a number of letters or administrative documents in which reference is made to prior eponym years.  The prior eponym is often (but not necessarily) immediately contiguous. A list of such letters during Shalmaneser 1 is summarized below (based on Freydank, BCMG, 36ff and Saporetti, GEMA, 9ff), yielding the sequence:  

Document Comments

VAT 19195=

VS 21,23

 

Dated in Assur-da’issunu<Lulaju.  Mentions the following 7 eponyms with order interpreted as follows:

Adad-šamši<Adad-sumu-lesir =>

Kidin-sin<Adad-teja =>

Assur[...]<Abi-ili=>

Istar-eres<Sulmanu-q[arrad]=>

Ber-bel-lite=>

Lulaju<Adad-sumu-iddinas=>

Assur-da’issunu<Lulaju

Assur-[…]<Abi-ili could be either Assur-ketti-ide or Assur-dammiq – both of which are attested eponyms in this period. It is interpreted as Assur-dammiq, because of slightly later associations of Assur-ketti-ide in DeZ 3828 (see below). [1]

A1722: Donbaz, Melanges P. Garelli 1991

 

Assur-da'issunu => Nabu-bela-usur

VAT 18900

Dated in Lulaju.  Mentions prior eponyms Istar-eris and Ber-bel-lite – confirming order attributed in VAT19195 above.

VAT 19194

Abi-ili[<Assur-sumu-lesir]=>Adad-šamši   

This is significant since VAT8997 has an ordering:

Abi-ili=>

Assur-alik-pana=>

Musallim-assur –

with an important royal inscription in Musallim-assur.  The most obvious interpretation is that Musallim-assur also precedes Adad-šamši, although the possibility of the  reverse is not absolutely excluded on the data.

VAT 8997

KAJ 113

Abi-ili<Assur-sumu-lesir =>

Assur-alik-pana=>

Musallim-assur

VAT 14477

AfO 19:7

 

Istar-eres=>

Assur-da’issunu =>

Usat-marduk

 

This sequence is provably over at least 7 years:  there are two eponyms between Istar-eres and Assur-da’issunu (see VAT18900) and between Assur-da’issunu and Usat-marduk (see DeZ3828). Thus, one cannot deduce that mention of prior eponym in a grain accounting necessarily means that the year was an immediate predecessor, although one can reasonably assume that it is within a few years.

VAT 8009

Assur 16308

 

Ber-bel-lite =>Lullaju

This confirms VAT18900, but does not add additional information.

A70; Assur 11017 Lullaju=>Assur-ketti-ide=>Usat-marduk (Donbaz 1991)

VAT 8572

KAJ 240

Tukulti-ninurta =>

Qibi-assur =>

Musallim-adad

This sequence is later than the earlier sequence, covering the transition from Shalmaneser 1 to TN1.

VAT 8987

Ubru =>

Tukulti-ninurta =>

Qibi-assur

DeZ 3377

Ellil-asared => 

Ittabsi-den-assur =>

Ubru: 

Slightly earlier than the VAT8572 sequence.

VAT8852

KAJ 80

Eribtaju =>

Ellil-asared

VAT 19193

Usat-marduk=>

Ellil-asared

DeZ 3828

Assur-ketti-ide =>

Eribtaju =>

Nabu-bela-usur =>

Usat-marduk

VAT19550

Ittabsi-den-assur =>

Sunuqardu

 



[1] Freydank (BCMG,40n102) states that Assur-ketti-ide is not in the Babu-aha-iddina letters, while Assur-dammiq is. This does not seem to prove the point since the Babu-aha-iddina archive continues until TN1 and would include the Assur-ketti-ide year in any event.

 

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