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A Fragment From Kish with the Name of Aššur-Nādin-Šumi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Geoffrey Neate
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Among the material excavated at Kish by Stephen Langdon and now in the Ashmolean Museum is a small limestone fragment (Field registration number K.1884) bearing parts of six lines of an inscription in Babylonian script. W. G. Lambert has recently recognised in line 4 the name of Aššurnādin-šumi, regent of Babylonia 700–694 B.C. Lambert provided the transliteration here printed, and to him and to Professor O. R. Gurney are due the present writer's thanks for the suggestion that he undertake publication of the piece (see Fig. 1).

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , Spring 1971 , pp. 54 - 56
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1971

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References

1 See Tallquist, K., Assyrian Personal Names (1914), 42Google Scholar.

2 Luckenbill, D. D., Annals of Sennacherib, 35Google Scholar, l. 72 (māru rēštû).

3 D. D. Luckenbill, op. cit., 151.

4 Cf. Frankfort, H., Kingship and the Gods, p. 244Google Scholar: “In the House of Succession the crown prince was initiated in the craft of kingship. He took an active part in the government, representing the king in official celebrations, carrying out special missions, and supervising religious festivals”.

5 D. D. Luckenbill, op. cit., 35, ll. 71–74.

6 CT 36, 25, iv 16. Lambert has called my attention to the fact that Aššur-nādin-šumi also appears in the “Canon of Ptolemy” as Άπαραναδίον, again with six years of rule.

7 Goetze, A., JNES 3 (1944), 43Google Scholar.

8 Böhl, F. M. T., Orientalia Neerlandica (1948), 123–136Google Scholar.

9 ii 30–31.

10 ii 36–45.

11 See also Millard, A. R., Iraq 26 (1964), 17fGoogle Scholar.