In the following table, the inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II are sorted
according to their material aspect divided in four categories:
Monumental and palatial inscriptions, Clay Tablets, Clay Cones, and
Others.
Monumental and
palatial inscriptions |
Object | text no. | Provenance |
slab (sculptured)
| 1 ("Annals A") | Nimrud |
slab (sculptured)
| 3 ("Annals B") | Nimrud |
slab (sculptured)
| 5-7 | Nimrud |
slab (sculptured)
| 23 ("Standard Inscription" of Nimrud) | Nimrud |
slab (sculptured)
| 40 ("Standard Inscription" of Nineveh) | Nineveh |
slab
| 2 (also Lion Colossus and Bull Colossus) | Nimrud |
slab | 4 | Nimrud |
slab | 8-15 (Annals series) | Nimrud |
slab | 30 ("Banquet Stele") | Nimrud |
slab | 31 | Nimrud |
slab | 34-37 | Nimrud |
slab | 41-44 (variants of the "Standard Inscription" of Nineveh) | Nineveh |
slab | 45-46 | Nineveh |
slab | 52-53 | Ashur |
slab | 102-106 | Nimrud |
slab | 1006 | Nimrud |
stele | 17 ("Nimrud Monolith") | Nimrud |
stele | 19 ("Kurkh
Monolith") | Kurkh |
stele | 20 | Babil, SE Turkey |
obelisk | 18 ("White Obelisk") | Nineveh |
obelisk | 24 ("Rassam Obelisk") and its epigraphs 71-79 | Nimrud |
animal/mythical statue | 2 (lion colossus, bull colossus, but also
slab), 28 (lion colossus), 32 (lion colossus) | Nimrud |
animal/mythical statue | 2007 (human-headed bull
colossus) | Šadikanni |
anthropomorphic statue | 39 (Statue of Ashurnasirpal II) | Nimrud |
anthropomorphic statue | 47 (on tablet, originally on Statue of
Ashurnasirpal II) | Nimrud |
anthropomorphic statue | 2004 (Statue of
Adad-itʾi/Hadad-yisʿi) | Tell Fekherye |
bronze band
| 51 (main
text) and 80-97
(epigraphs) (Balawat Gates) | Imgur-Enlil (Balawat) |
altar | 98 | Nimrud |
stone tablet
| 26 (fragment from
"Annals A") | Ashur |
stone tablet
| 38 (Kidmuru
temple texts) | Nimrud |
stone tablet
| 59
| Imgur-Enlil (Balawat) |
stone box
| 54 (contains
two tablets, here no. 70, below)
| Tell Abu Marya |
metal tablet
| 70 (two tablets,
one gold and one silver)
| Tell Abu Marya |
stone cylinder
| 2003 | Assyria |
stone fragment
| 49 | Nineveh |
stone fragment
| 2001
| Nimrud |
uncertain
| 25 , 27 ,29 (squeeze from
stone object) | Nimrud |
uncertain
| 43 (squeeze from
stone object) | Nineveh |
brick
| 130-132 | Nimrud |
brick
| 138 | Nineveh |
brick
| 133-137 (134, also
vessel), 1005 | Ashur |
Clay Tablets |
Object | text no. | Provenance |
clay tablet
| 16, 21 (fragments from
"Annals A") | Ashur |
clay tablet
| 33 | Nineveh |
clay tablet
| 48 | Nineveh |
Clay Cones |
Object | text no. | Provenance |
clay cone
| 55, 109-110, 115 (also
brick, hand, sarcophagus) | Nimrud |
clay cone
| 56-59,
60-66,
111-113, 1001-1003 | Nineveh |
clay cone
| 67-69,
116 (also
brick), 118, 119
(cone plate), 117 (cone
plate, also
brick) | Ashur |
Others |
Object | text no. | Provenance |
mace head
| 99-100 | Nimrud |
vessel
| 101 | Nimrud |
vessel
| 134 (also
brick) | Nineveh |
vessel
| 2002 | Assyria |
duck weight
| 107 | Nimrud |
sarcophagus
| 115 (also
brick, hand, cone) | Nimrud |
plaque
| add141 | Idu |
hands
| 115 (also
brick, and sarcophagus), 120-125
(125 also
brick) | Nimrud |
hand
| 126-128
(127 also
brick) | Nineveh |
hand
| 129
(also
brick) | Ashur |
seal (not impression)
| 2005 | Tarbiṣu |
seal (not impression)
| 2006 | Babylon |
Nathan Morello, 'Texts as Objects', RIA 4: Inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, The RIA Project, 2025 [http://oracc.org/TextsasObjects/]