Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia Volume 2: Historical Records of Assyria From Sargon to the End

Author(s): Daniel David Luckenbill.

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The two volumes comprising the Ancient Records of Assyria, presented for the first time in a single compact edition the entire body of the Assyrian historical records in a Western language, may form not only a monument to the careful scholarship of Professor Luckenbill, but also a valuable contribution to historical knowledge. This volume is the second of the Ancient Records Series that covers the translations of written records in Assyria from Sargon to the end of the empire.

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Table of Contents

I. Sargon; The Khorsabad Texts
II. Sargon; The Khorsabad Texts–Continued
III. Sargon; Inscriptions from Assur, Calah, and Nineveh
IV. Sargon; Inscriptions from Assur, Calah, and Nineveh–Continued
V. Sennacherib; The Historical Texts
VI. Sennacherib; The Building Inscriptions
VII. Esarhaddon; The Historical Texts
VIII. Esarhaddon; The Building Inscriptions
IX. Assurbanipal; The Cylinder Texts
X. Assurbanipal; The Historical Texts Inscribed on Tablets
XI. Assurbanipal; The Building Inscriptions
XII. Assurbanipal; The Miscellaneous Inscriptions
XIII. Assurbanipal's Successors
XIV. The Fall of Nineveh
XV. Chronological Texts and a List of Assyrian Kings

Index of Names
Assyrian Words and Ideograms
Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations
Assyrian Months, Weights and Measures
Additions and Corrections to Volume I