A stone vessel, possibly from Nineveh, is inscribed with a one-line proprietary label of an Assyrian royal lady by the name of Ana-Tašmētu-taklāk, who might have been the queen of Sîn-šarra-iškun (see the commentary for further details).
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As for the identity of Ana-Tašmētu-taklāk, I.L. Finkel (NABU 2000/1 p. 12 no. 8) has suggested that she "seems likely to have been most probably the second wife of Esarhaddon ... or perhaps the wife/widow of Sargon II, the second wife of Assurbanipal, or the wife of one of Assurbanipal's sons" (Aššur-etel-ilāni or Sîn-šarra-iškun). Compare also Searight, Assyrian Stone Vessels p. 74, where Finkel states that she was "Sargon's widow or a wife of a seventh-century king." More recently, S. Svärd (Power and Women pp. 100–101, 117, and 278) has argued that Ana-Tašmētu-taklāk was the queen of Aššur-etel-ilāni or Sîn-šarra-iškun. Since this inscription was not included in Frame, RINAP 2 or Leichty, RINAP 4, since it is uncertain if this queen was the (second or first) wife of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, or Sîn-šarra-iškun, and since there are more attested Assyrian inscriptions for Sîn-šarra-iškun than there are for Aššur-etel-ilāni, this one-line proprietary inscription is tentatively included with the texts of Assyria's penultimate king, although there is no firm evidence to suggest that Ana-Tašmētu-taklāk was the queen of Sîn-šarra-iškun rather than some other late-eighth or seventh century Assyrian ruler.
Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers
Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers, 'High Officials and Royal Women (text nos. 2001)', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2023 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/RINAP53TextIntroductions/Sin-sharra-ishkun/HighOfficialsandRoyalWomentext2001/]