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This paper revisits the historical significance and legacy of Shalmaneser V, analyzing the meanings of the Akkadian name and its association with royal authority. It reviews the historical context and inscriptions from his reign, providing insights into Assyrian historiography and the cultural implications of throne-naming practices. Through detailed discussions and references to existing scholarly works, the study contributes to a deeper understanding of the era's political and religious dynamics.
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The Babylonian Chronicle explicitly states that Shalmaneser V "destroyed Samaria," corroborating biblical accounts from 2 Kings 17:3-6. However, inscriptions by Sargon II later claim the conquest, possibly as part of political maneuvering.
The paper finds that 'Shalmaneser,' an official throne-name, was unique to kings and signified divine favor, likely given at accession. In contrast, Ululayu, his birth name, reflects personal heritage and was common, as seen in numerous inscriptions.
Shalmaneser V deviated from tradition by assuming his eponym office in the fourth year, rather than the customary second. This foreshadowed a later trend of irregular eponymates among subsequent Assyrian rulers.
Shalmaneser V is identified as the son of Tiglath-pileser III, yet his genealogy remains contentious, possibly indicating a claim to legitimacy amid political upheaval. Additionally, family dynamics with Sargon II suggest complex lineage and rivalries.
Shalmaneser V implemented the heavy mina as the standard for weights, establishing a distinct economic system in Assyria. This move indicated administrative centralization and may have been a means to regulate commerce effectively.
![* He is referred to as governor of Nasibina for the eponym of 736 (Millard 1994: 44). Luukko 2012: LI] and n. 248 assumes that Ninurta-ilaya held the office of turtanu (commander-in-chief), since he took the eponym office following the king’s epony- mate, and since the year after the king’s eponymate was normally taken by turta@nu until the reign of Tiglath-pileser III. Table 1. Data given in the Eponym Lists and Eponym Chronicles Relating to the Reign of Shalmaneser V](/image.pl?url=https%3a%2f%2ffigures.academia-assets.com%2f55359378%2ftable_001.jpg&f=jpg&w=240)


![Table 4. Attestations of Bel-Harran-belu-usur and ndagir ekalli Table 4. Attestations of Bel-Harran-belu-usur and nagir ekalli RES ASS, ASN Se Se Vee Fa re? Ye See ee Re Sa. ee. 1077 (PNA 3/1, Salmanu-aSaréd, 4.a.) and “Salmanassar IV,” RIA 11 (2008): 585. 123. Unger distinguishes two individuals with the name Bel-Harran-belu-usur: one was the commissioner of the stele in question and the eponym of 741, and the other was the eponym of 727, the governor of Guzana. In contrast, Grayson (1993: 28-29), equating the two eponyms, estimates the duration of Bel-Harran-belu-usur’s office of nagir ekalli at more than 50 years (ca. 782-727), with a period of intermission, starting in the reign of Adad-nerari III and ending after Tiglath-pileser II]’s last regnal year. It remains unclear which was the case. Cf. Radner 1999b: 301 (Bél-Harran-bélu-usur, 2 and 3), who follows Unger’s idea.](/image.pl?url=https%3a%2f%2ffigures.academia-assets.com%2f55359378%2ftable_004.jpg&f=jpg&w=240)
The superintendent is a dog ($adr ad-dīn sag), the revenue collector is a camel (Jalāl ad-dīn Istarjānī Qurbān), the tax collector is a cow (Muhammad Kala gāw), and the qādī is a donkey (Abū Sa`īd khar).
Robert Rollinger and Sebastian Fink (Hg.), Conceptualizing Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium of the Melammu Project Held in Helsinki and Tartu, May 18-24, 2015 (= Melammu Symposia 9), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 131-143, 2018
NABU Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires 2001/2. , 2001
2) Again on DeZ 3281, Middle-Assyrian toponymy and a lºmu from Tell fi™⁄ ∑amad/Dªr Katlimmu -The barley delivery DeZ 328 1 from Tell fi™⁄ ∑amad, commented upon previously 2 , carries a list of personal and place-names offering information on the western regions of the Middle-Assyrian kingdom. The texts appears to provide, in a sequence, a listing of places and people starting from the western border areas and following on with the eastern frontier. The delivery mentions two personal names and then a number of sites: uru.pa-a-tu-[ ], Dunni-Aßßur, ·uzirånu, ·arrånu, Ayya, ·abayatu, Araziqu, bu-ßa-ia-ú, Ni⁄rºya, the cities of the Upper Land of ·ånu, uru.⁄u-um-na-⁄u-Ωa. Two further personal names close the sequence 3 .
ARCE’s 72nd Annual Meeting, 2021
In 1958 W. Helck argued in his Zur Verwaltung des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs that in the Middle Kingdom there was a process which lead the provinces to cease being the territorial administrative units in favour of small entities, which was rooted in the First Intermediate Period due to the territorial fragmentation notable during that "turbulent" time. The main authority would no longer be designated by the title ḥry-tp ʿȝ (n) PROVINCE NAME, but rather ḥȝty-ʿ (n/m) TOWN NAME. In Helck's opinion, this title may be shortened to ḥȝty-ʿ and, in this case, always appears before the name of this official; this would allow to distinguish it from the old ḥȝty-ʿ of Memphite tradition, which was still in use. He also finds cases where the term HAty-a is repeated twice in the very same string of titles, one at the beginning and the other before the name. This interpretation may hardly be ascertained because our knowledge of the title ḥȝty-ʿ (n/m) TOWN NAME, unlike for the New Kingdom, is minimal during the Middle Kingdom. This communication aims to discuss whether Helck's account can actually be deduced from the texts of the tombs of the highest officials of the Oryx province in Beni Hassan since one of the few instances of this title in the Middle Kingdom, ḥȝty-ʿ n Mnʿt-Ḫw=f-w(i), is attested here. Based on such approach, a re-examination of the chronology of these officials will be proposed.
SEL, 1991
In 1978, upon the occasion of a Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale on «Mesopotamien und seine Nachbarn», two separate contributions, by P. Garelli and H. Tadmor, were devoted to the Arameans in the Neo-Assyrian empire1. Both of these studies - which surprisingly ...
Indo-iranian Journal, 1975
Names of Walls, Gates, and Palatial Structures of Assyrian Royal Cities: Contents, Styles, and Ideology, ORIENT 55 (2020), 87-104, 2020
This paper deals with the names given to the city walls, city gates, and palatial structures in Assyrian capital cities, Assur, Kalhu, Dur-Šarrukin, and Nineveh, in the Neo-Assyrian period. These names comprised popular names, which were supposedly used daily, and ceremonial names, which were given for ceremonial-ideological purposes. The names were formulated differently in various cities and in different periods, reflecting the change of historical circumstances and contemporary political-theological ideologies. The naming of the architectural works in later Assyria represented the increasing imperialistic pride of Assyrian kings about their world dominion, claiming the prominence of the capital as the navel of the world in political, economic, and religious senses. In this way, they particularly challenged the traditional Mesopotamian cosmic order, in the center of which Babylon and its god Marduk had been placed.
The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria, 2011
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap1/index.html The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 1) carries on where the Assyrian Periods sub-series of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) Project ended. The volume provides reliable, up-to-date editions of seventy-three royal inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III and of his son and immediate successor Shalmaneser V, eleven late Neo-Assyrian inscriptions which may be attributed to one of those two eighth-century rulers, and eight texts commissioned by Assyrian queens and high-ranking officials. Following the style of the now-defunct RIM series, each text edition (with its English translation) is supplied with a brief introduction containing general information, a catalogue containing basic information about all exemplars, a commentary containing further technical information and notes, and a comprehensive bibliography. RINAP 1 also includes: (1) a general introduction to the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Shalmaneser V, the corpus of inscriptions, previous studies, and dating and chronology; (2) translations of the relevant passages of Mesopotamian king lists and chronicles; (3) several photographs of objects inscribed with texts of Tiglath-pileser III and Shalmaneser V; (4) indices of museum and excavation numbers and selected publications; and (5) indices of proper names (Personal Names; Geographic, Ethnic, and Tribal Names; Divine Names; Gate, Palace, and Temple Names; and Object Names).
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 2020
Multiple names of local rulers are attested in the Amarna letters, most of which can be analyzed as being linguistically West Semitic, Hurrian, or Indo-Aryan. These names have been variously discussed, but no systematic analysis of their geographical distribution has ever been performed. This paper aims to fill this gap. The first section provides the actual analysis of the data. The names are first analyzed in the light of their geographical distribution (using geographic information system [GIS] and clustering algorithms). Then I present a theoretical model of naming practices based on cross-cultural evidence. Finally, this model is applied to the names of the local rulers in order to assess their socio-historical significance.
Paper surveys the history of the ancient Assyrian site of Dur-Sharrukin ("the fortress of Sargon").

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in Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2020-1 (2020), pp. 33-36, no. 16, 2020
Assyrian Names, 2024
The Assyrian dialect of Akkadian in the first millennium BCE is closely related to the Babylonian dialect. This, together with their common cultural background and the high degree of interaction and mobility between the two regions means that the personal name repertoires of Assyria and Babylonia overlap to a significant degree. For example, Neo-Assyrian sources mention many individuals who can be identified as Babylonians, whether active in Assyria (as deportees, visitors, or settlers) or in Babylonia (as mentioned, for example, in Assyrian royal inscriptions, or in the Babylonian letters of the official correspondence). Their personal names, for the most part, are indistinguishable from those of the Assyrians themselves. These circumstances make it somewhat challenging to distinguish names of genuinely Assyrian derivation and to identify them in the Babylonian sources.
The four Seb I:Iamad texts of early Neo-Babylonian date published in this issue of . SAAB present an interesting admixture of onomastic formations, viewed both synchronically and across generations. The relatively abundant purely Akkadian names are the following l :
THE ROYAL INSCRIPTIONS OF THE NEO-ASSYRIAN PERIOD ONLINE SUPPLEMENTS 1, 2012
The Sun King in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East , 2023
The following data was compiled using the royal inscriptions published in the RIME, RIMB, and RIMA series. This research is part of my forthcoming monograph, tentatively entitled The Sun King in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (London: Transnational Press).
in: G. Wilhelm (Ed.), Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East Proceedings of the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Würzburg 20–25 July 2008, Winona Lake, 2012
In: Feliu Mateu, L, Adelina Millet Albà, and Jordi Vidal Palomino (eds.) «Sentido de un empeño»: homenatge a Gregorio del Olmo Lete (Barcino monographica orientalia 16) Barcelona: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona; Institut del Pròxim Orient Antic, 2021, pp. 263-284, 2021
Uṣur-namkūr-šarri was one of the major figures in the administration of the kingdom during the reign of Tukultī-Ninurta I (1233-1197 BC). From the attestations in the Middle Assyrian archival documentation we can follow his career, which reached its peak in the second part of the reign of Tukultī-Ninurta I. The recent attempts to order the eponyms during this reign have made it possible to arrange, at least partially, the archival documents mentioning Uṣur-namkūr-šarri and to gain an idea of how his career unfolded.
The Assyrian King List (AKL) is central to the reconstruction of Assyrian and broader Near Eastern history and chronology. Because of AKL's significance, locating its original moment of composition has far-reaching his-toriographical implications. There is no scholarly consensus on the dating of AKL, but a closer look at the internal evidence of AKL indicates a firm, fifteenth century terminus post quem for the creation of AKL, while the bilingual tablet fragment BM 98,496 establishes the thirteenth century reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I as a secure terminus ante quem. Within this temporal range, it is possible to trace the genesis of AKL to the reign of Aššur-uballiṭ I. This period witnessed great change in Assyria, and the nature of this change provides an ideal historical, political, and ideological context for the production of AKL. No other moment in Assyrian history offers so compelling a conjunction of political motives and historical circumstances for AKL's composition.
Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2017
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