Fragments of a Synchronistic King List (VAT 11261 and VAT 11345)
Two small fragments belonging to one and the same clay tablet (VAT 11261 and VAT 11345) preserve a small portion of a copy of a Synchronistic King List [https://www.livius.org/sources/content/anet/272-synchronic-king-list/]; both pieces were discovered in the ruins of the Assyrian city of Aššur. The format differs from the other versions of this chronographic text; the lists of Assyrian rulers (left column) and Babylonian rulers (right column) were written in separate columns, with no attempt to arrange them into contemporaneous pairs.
| Lacuna | |
| i 1') | [Ninurta-apil-E]kur |
| i 2') | [Aššur]-dān (I) |
| i 3') | [Nin]urta-tukulti-Aššur |
| i 4') | [Mu]takkil-Nusku |
| i 5') | [Ašš]ur-rēša-iši (I) |
| i 6') | [Ti]glath-pileser (I) |
| i 7') | [A]šarēd-apil-Ekur |
| i 8') | [Aššur]-bēl-kala |
| i 9') | [Erība]-Adad (II) |
| i 10') | [Šamšī]-Adad (IV) |
| Lacuna | |
| ii 1') | Š[irikti-Šuqamuna] |
| ii 2') | Mār-[bīti-apla-uṣur] |
| ii 3') | Nabû-muk[īn-apli] |
| ii 4') | Ninurta-kudurrī-uṣur (II) |
| ii 5') | Mār-bīti-aḫḫē-iddina |
| ii 6') | Šamaš-muda[mmiq] |
| ii 7') | Nabû-šuma-[ukīn (I)] |
| ii 8') | Nabû-apla-[iddina] |
| ii 9') | Marduk-z[ākir-šumi (I)] |
| ii 10') | MU-[PAP, his scholar] |
| ii 11') | ...[...] |
| Lacuna | |
| ii 1'') | Ninurta?-apl?-[...] |
| ii 2'') | Marduk-b[ēl-zēri] |
| ii 3'') | Marduk-apla-[uṣur] |
| ii 4'') | Erība-Mar[duk] |
| ii 5'') | Nabû-šuma-[iškun] |
| Lacuna |
Selected Bibliography
Chen, F., Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020.
Grayson, A.K., 'Königslisten und Chroniken. B. Akkadisch,' in: D.O. Edzard (ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 6/1–2, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1980, pp. 122-123 §3.14.
Schroeder, O., Keilschrifttexte aus Assur verschiedenen Inhalts (= Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 35), Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1920, nos. 10 and 13.
Jamie Novotny
Jamie Novotny, 'Fragments of a Synchronistic King List (VAT 11261 and VAT 11345)', The Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo) Project, The RIAo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2023 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/KingLists/SynchronisticKingList/FragmentsVAT11261andVAT11345/]