TABLE I. The Chronological Structure of the Nineveh Legal Corpus
Reign Pt. I | number of texts | % of whole corpus | % of datable texts |
Tiglath-pileser
III | 11 | 1.4 | 2.3 |
Shalmaneser V | 2 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
Sargon II | 21 | 2.6 | 4.3 |
Sennacherib | 162 | 20.1 | 32.5 |
Esarhaddon | 110 | 13.6 | 22.6 |
Assurbanipal (Pt. 1) | 44 | 5.5 | 9.0 |
Total
(Pt. I) | 350 | 43.5 | 71.1 |
Reign Pt. II | number of texts | % of whole corpus | % of datable texts |
Assurbanipal (Pt. II) | 66 | 8.2 | 13.5 |
(Assurbanipal Total) | (110) | (13.6) | (22.6) |
Post-canonical Texts | 76 | 9.5 | 15.4 |
Undatable with Known Central Person | 54 | 6.7 | |
Undatable with Unknown Central Person | 258 | 32.1 | |
Total (Pt. II) | 454 | 56.5 | 28.9 |
Simo Parpola, 'TABLE I. The Chronological Structure of the Nineveh Legal Corpus', Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon, SAA 6. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1991; online contents: SAAo/SAA06 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa06/NatureoftheNinevehLegalArchive/ChronologicalStructureoftheCorpus/TableI/]
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