There are three known official inscriptions of local officials who may have lived during the reign of one of the Bazi Dynasty kings. Although the precise dates of these texts are not known, scholars generally place their date of composition around the late eleventh and tenth centuries BC and thus these inscriptions are often edited together with other inscriptions of the Bazi Dynasty.
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A clay tablet now in the Louvre (Paris) is inscribed with an archival copy of an Akkadian text recording that a governor of the Sealand, a certain Kaššû-bēl-zēri, dedicated a field to a goddess of the city Uruk (Uṣur-amāssu); the original provenance is not known, but it may have come from Uruk. According to the scribal note on the tablet, this text had been inscribed on a bead that formed part of a necklace worn by the goddess Uṣur-amāssu. Because personal names with the theophoric element Kaššû are only attested ca. 1008-955 BC, the inscription is thought to have been composed sometime around the time the Bazi Dynasty was in power.
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A bronze arrow head in the Foroughi Collection in Teheran bears a proprietary inscription of a certain Ninurta-ušallim, a šangû-priest and an important official of the city Babylon. The object, which is reported to have come from Luristan, may have been incised sometime in the late eleventh or tenth century BC since numerous inscribed arrow heads of Babylonian rulers of that time are known, including at least one of the Bazi Dynasty rulers.
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A bronze arrow head in the Foroughi Collection in Teheran has a proprietary inscription of an individual (...-Marduk) who may have been a provincial governor, possibly in the late eleventh or tenth century BC. The piece is said to have come from Luristan.
Access the composite text [/ribo/babylon4/Q006287/] of Bazi Dynasty Unidentified Ruler 2003.
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Jamie Novotny
Jamie Novotny, 'Official Inscriptions of Governors', RIBo, Babylon 4: The Inscriptions of the Bazi Dynasty, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon4/Rulers/Governors/]