In Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, CHEN Fei conducts a full investigation into that king list, which records all the kings of Assyria and Babylonia in contemporary pairs from the 18th to the 7th century BC. The texts of all the exemplars of the Synchronistic King List are reconstructed anew by the existing studies and the author’s personal collations on their sources, and part of the text of the main exemplar is thus revised. The author also looks into the format of the Synchronistic King List and draws the conclusion that the Synchronistic King List was composed by Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, to support his Babylonian policy.
Author(s): Fei Chen
Series: Cuneiform Monographs 51
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: xviii+250
Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Tables
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1 King Lists in Mesopotamia
2 The Synchronistic King List from Ashur
2.1 Sources
2.2 Archaeological Context
2.3 Contents of the Texts
3 Research Review on the Synchronistic King List
3.1 Editions
3.2 Collations
3.3 Studies
3.3.1 The Royal Names
3.3.2 The Synchronisms
3.3.3 The Arrangement of the Parallel Pairs of Kings
3.3.4 The Ummânū
3.3.5 The Beginning Entry, the Date and the Purpose
4 Main Arguments of This Study
2 The Texts of the Synchronistic King List
1 A.117
1.1 Transliteration
1.2 Translation
1.3 Commentary
1.3.1 Column I
1.3.1.1 Lacuna at the Beginning of Column I
1.3.1.2 i 1’
1.3.1.3 i 2’
1.3.1.4 i 3’
1.3.1.5 i 4’
1.3.1.6 i 5’
1.3.1.7 i 6’
1.3.1.8 i 7’
1.3.1.9 i 8’
1.3.1.10 i 9’
1.3.1.11 i 10’
1.3.1.12 i 11’–18’
1.3.1.13 i 19’
1.3.1.14 i 20’
1.3.1.15 i 21’
1.3.1.16 i 22’–25’
1.3.2 Column II
1.3.2.1 Lacuna at the beginning of Column II
1.3.2.2 ii 1’–2’
1.3.2.3 ii 3’–4’
1.3.2.4 ii 5’–6’
1.3.2.5 ii 7’–9’
1.3.2.6 ii 10’–11’
1.3.2.7 ii 12’–13’
1.3.2.8 ii 14’–16’
1.3.2.9 ii 17’
1.3.2.10 ii 18’–19’
1.3.2.11 ii 20’–24’
1.3.3 Column III
1.3.3.1 iii 1’–2’
1.3.3.2 iii 3’
1.3.3.3 iii 4’
1.3.3.4 iii 5’
1.3.3.5 iii 6’
1.3.3.6 iii 7’
1.3.3.7 iii 8’
1.3.3.8 iii 9’–12’
1.3.3.9 iii 13’–15’
1.3.3.10 iii 16’–17’
1.3.3.11 iii 18’–19’
1.3.3.12 iii 20’–21’
1.3.3.13 iii 22’
1.3.3.14 Lacuna at the end of Column III
1.3.4 Column IV
1.3.4.1 iv 1’–6’
1.3.4.2 iv 7’–9’
1.3.4.3 iv 10’–11’
1.3.4.4 iv 12’–13’
1.3.4.5 iv 14’–16’
1.3.4.6 iv 17’–21’
2 KAV 10
2.1 Transliteration
2.2 Translation
2.3 Commentary
3 KAV 13
4 KAV 9
5 KAV 11
6 KAV 12
7 A.118
7.1 Transliteration
7.2 Translation
7.3 Commentary
3 The Format of the Synchronistic King List
1 Comparisons between the Synchronistic King List and the Other
King Lists
2 Comparisons between A.117 and the Other Exemplars of the
Synchronistic King List
3 The Arrangement of the Parallel Pairs of Kings in A.117
4 The Composition of the Synchronistic King List
1 The Date of the Synchronistic King List
1.1 The Date of A.118
1.2 The Date of A.117
2 The Beginning Entry of A.117
2.1 The Initial Assyrian King: Erishum I
2.2 The Initial Babylonian King: Sumu-la-El
3 The Number of Kings Listed in A.117
3.1 The Number of the Assyrian Kings
3.2 The Number of the Babylonian Kings
4 The Use of “MIN”
5 The Meanings of “Ummânu”
6 The Implications of “King of Akkad”
5 The Purpose of the Synchronistic King List
1 Studies on the Purposes of Some Other King Lists
2 Previous Propositions on the Purpose of the Synchronistic
King List
3 A Tentative Solution to the Purpose of the Synchronistic King List:
the Babylonian Policy of Ashurbanipal
6 Conclusion
Appendix I: A List of Assyrian Kings
Appendix II: A List of Babylonian Kings
Appendix III: The Selected Synchronistic Kings of Assyria and Babylonia in the Lacunae of A.117
1 Shamshi-Adad I / Ishme-Dagan I vs. Hammurabi
2 Ashur-uballit I vs. the Kassite Kings from Burnaburiash II to Kurigalzu II
3 Enlil-nirari / Adad-nirari I vs. Kurigalzu II / Nazimaruttash / Kadashman-Turgu
4 Adad-nirari III vs. Unknown Babylonian King(s)
5 Shalmaneser IV / Ashur-dan III / Ashur-nirari V vs. unknown Babylonian king(s) / Nabonassar
6 Tiglath-pileser III vs. Nabonassar / Nabu-nadin-zeri / Nabu-shuma-ukin II / Nabu-mukin-zeri
7 Sargon II vs. Merodach-baladan II
Bibliography
Plates
Index of Personal Names
