The "Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary" List, together with the Khorsabad List, is one of the two best-surviving versions of the Assyrian King List. J. Gelb first published it in 1954 in tandem with the Khorsabad List; the joint publication enabled modern scholars to reconstruct many broken passages of the latter text.
The original provenance of the tablet is unknown and the curious
story of its publication was summarized by Gelb (1954:209-10) as
follows:
The present owner of this tablet inherited it
from natives in Mosul before the first World War. Toward the end of
1953 the owner of the tablet brought it to Dr. Siegfried H. Horn,
professor at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and generously left it with the seminary on a permanent loan basis. As far as can be ascertained, the tablet had not been shown before to any competent scholar, nor had the value of its contents been recognized until Dr. Horn was given the opportunity to inspect the tablet. During the Christmas vacations of 1953 Dr. Horn brought the tablet to Chicago and entrusted it to the writer for publication, under the condition that it be published within the limits of one calendar year from the date of January 1, 1954.
Because the list on this tablet ends with the reign of Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), the SDAS List was most probably composed during the reign of his successor Sargon II (722-705), which makes it the latest known version of the AKL.
Gelb, JNES 4 (1954) pl. 16-17.
This version of the AKL, which is almost identical to the
Khorsabad List in both size and shape, contains a few notable variants.
ii 7: This list
assigns fifty years to Išme-Dagān I (no. 40), whereas the
Khorsabad List gives him a reign of only forty
years. Išme-Dagān I's reign is not preserved on the Nassouhi List.
ii 29: The SDAS List states that Puzur-Aššur III (no. 61) reigned twenty-four years. The Khorsabad List is damaged at this point and the Nassouhi List states that this ruler exercised kingship for only fourteen years.
| Line | Ruler
No. | | Translation | | Ruler No. | | Translation |
| i 1 | (1) | | Ṭūdīya | | (2) | | Adāmu |
| i 2 | (3) | | Yangi | | (4) | | Saḫlāmu |
| i 3 | (5) | | Ḫarḫaru | | (6) | | Mandaru |
| i 4 | (7) | | Imṣu (8) Ḫarṣu | | (9) | | Didānu |
| i 5 | (10) | | Ḫanû | | (11) | | Zū-abi |
| i 6 | (12) | | Nuʾabu | | (13) | | Abāzu |
| i 7 | (14) | | Belû | | (15) | | Azaraḫ |
| i 8 | (16) | | Ušpiya | | (17) | | Apiašal |
| | | | | | | |
| i 9 | | | Total of 17 kings, | | | | who dwelt in tents. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 10 | (26) | | Aminu [/riao/ria1/earlybeginnings/ashursorigins/aminu/index.html], |
| | | son of Ilā-kabkabī. |
| i 11 | (25) | | [Il]ā-kabkabī, | | | | son of Yaškur-ilu. |
| i 12 | (24) | | [Yaš]kur-ilu, | | | | son of Yakmenu. |
| i 13 | (23) | | [Yakm]enu, | | | | son of Yakmisu. |
| i 14 | (22) | | [Yakmis]u, | | | | son of Ilī-Wēr. |
| i 15 | (21) | | [Ilī-Wēr], | | | | son of Ḫayānu. |
| i 16 | (20) | | [Ḫayā]nu, | | | | son of Samānu. |
| i 17 | (19) | | Samānu, | | | | son of Ḫal[lî]. |
| i 18 | (18) | | Ḫallî, | | | | son of Api[ašal]. |
| i 19 | (17) | | Apiašal, | | | | son of Ušpiy[a]. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 20 | | | Total of 10 kings, | | | | who were forefathers. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 21 | (27) | | Sulilu [/riao/ria1/earlybeginnings/ashursorigins/sulilu/index.html], | | | | son of Aminu. |
| i 22 | (28) | | [K]ikkiya | | (29) | | Akiya |
| i 23 | (30) | | [Puz]ur-Aššur (I) | | (31) | | Šalim-aḫum [/riao/ria1/earlybeginnings/puzurashurdynasty/shalimahum/index.html] |
| i 24 | (32) | | [Ilu-šū]ma [/riao/ria1/earlybeginnings/puzurashurdynasty/ilushumma/index.html] | |
| | Total
of 6 kings, |
| i 25 | | | [who occur? on?] brick, | | | | whose eponymies are unknown(?). |
| | | | | | | |
| i 26 | (33) | | [Eriš]um [/riao/ria1/earlybeginnings/puzurashurdynasty/erishumi/index.html] (I), | | | | son of Ilu-šūma, |
| i 27 | | | [whose eponymies? (are known?), | | | | ruled 4]0 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 28 | (34) | | [Ikūnum [/riao/ria1/earlybeginnings/puzurashurdynasty/ikunum/index.html], | | | | son of] Erišum (I), |
| i 29 | | | [x years | |
| | he rul]ed. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 30 | (35) | | [Sargon [/riao/ria1/earlybeginnings/puzurashurdynasty/sargoni/index.html] (I), | | | | son of] Ikūnum, |
| i 31 | | | [x years | |
| | he rul]ed. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 32 | (36) | | [Puzur-Aššur (II), | | | | son of Sarg]on [/riao/ria1/earlybeginnings/puzurashurdynasty/sargoni/index.html] (I), |
| i 33 | | | [x years | |
| | he rul]ed. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 34 | (37) | | [Narām-Sîn, | | | | son of Puzur-Aššur (II)], |
| i 35 | | | [x years | |
| | he ruled]. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 36 | (38) | | [Erišum (II), | | | | son of Narām-Sîn] |
| i 37 | | | [x years | |
| | he ruled]. |
| | | | | | | |
| i 38 | (39) | | [Samsī-Addu [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/samsiaddudynasty/samsiaddui/index.html] (I), | | | | son of Ilā-kabkabī], |
| i 39 | | | [at the time | | | | of Narām-Sîn], |
| i 40 | | | [he went to Karduniaš. | | | | In the eponymy of Ibnî-Adad], |
| i 41 | | | [Samsī-Addu (I) | | | | from Karduniaš came up] |
| ii 1 | | | he sized Ekallāte | | | | 3 years in Ekallāte |
| ii 2 | | | he resided. | | | | In the eponymy of Atamar-Ištar, |
| ii 3 | | | Samsī-Addu (I) | | | | came up from Ekallāte. |
| ii 4 | | | Erišum (II), | | | | son of Narām-Sîn, |
| ii 5 | | | he deposed from the throne, | | | | he sized the throne |
| ii 6 | | | (and) 33 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 7 | (40) | | Išme-Dagān (I), son of Samsī-Addu
(I), | | | | ruled 50 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 8 | (41) | | Aššur-dugul, son of a nobody, | | | | not an occupant of a throne, ruled 6 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 9 | | | At the time of Aššur-dugul, | | | | son of a nobody, |
| ii 10 | (42) | | Aššur-apla-īdi, (43) Nāṣir-Sîn, | | (44) | | Sîn-nammir, (45) Ipqi-Ištar, |
| ii 11 | (46) | | Adad-ṣalūlu,
(47) (and) Adāsi, | | | | 6 kings, son(s) of a nobody, |
| ii 12 | | | ... | | | | ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 13 | (48) | | Bēlu-bāni, son of Adāsi, | | | | ruled 10 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 14 | (49) | | Libāya, | | | | son of Bēlu-bāni, |
| ii 15 | | | 17 years | | | | he rule[d]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 16 | (50) | | [Šarma-Adad (I), son of Libā]ya, | | | | he rul[ed] 12 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 17 | (51) | | [Iptar-Sîn, son of Šarma-Adad (I), | | | | 12] years [he ruled]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 18 | (52) | | Bāzā[yu, son of Bēlu-bāni, | | | | he ruled 28 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 19 | (53) | | Lullāyu, son of a nobody, | | | | ruled 6 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 20 | (54) | | Šū-Nīnua (or Kidin-Nīnua), son of Bāzāyu, | | | | ruled 14 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 21 | (55) | | Šarma-Adad (II), son of Šū-Nīnua (or Kidin-Nīnua), | | | | ruled 3 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 22 | (56) | | Erišum (III), son of Šū-Nīnua (or Kidin-Nīnua), | | | | ruled 13 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 23 | (57) | | Šamšī-Adad (II), son of Erišum (III), | | | | ruled 6 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 24 | (58) | | Išme-Dagān (II), | | | | son of Šamšī-Adad (II), |
| ii 25 | | | 16 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 26 | (59) | | Šamšī-Adad [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/belubanidynasty/shamshiadadiii/index.html] (III), son of Išme-Dagān (II), | | | | brother of Šarma-Adad (II), |
| ii 27 | | | son of Šū-Nīnua (or Kidin-Nīnua), | | | | ruled 16 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 28 | (60) | | Aššur-nārārī [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/belubanidynasty/ashurnararii/index.html]
(I), son of Išme-Dagān (II), | | | | rul[ed] 26 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 29 | (61) | | Puzur-Aššur [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/belubanidynasty/puzurashuriii/index.html]
(III), son of Aššur-nārārī (I), | | | | [ruled] 24 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 30 | (62) | | Enlil-nāṣir [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/belubanidynasty/enlilnasiri/index.html]
(I), son of Puzur-Aššur
(III), | | | | [ruled 13 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 31 | (63) | | [Nū]r-ili, son of Enlil-nāṣir (I), | | | | [ruled
12 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 32 | (64) | | [Aššur-š]addûni, son
of Nūr-ili, | | | | ruled 1 month of days]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 33 | (65) | | [Aššu]r-rabi [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/mittanianhegemony/ashurrabii/index.html]
(I), son of Enlil-nāṣ[ir
(I), | | | | Aššur-šaddûni from the throne] |
| ii 34 | | | [he depos]ed, the throne he seiz[ed, | | | | he ruled x years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 35 | (66) | | [Aššur-nādin-aḫ]ḫē (I), son of Aššur-ra[bi (I), | | | | ruled x years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 36 | (67) | | [Enlil-nāṣir (II), his brother, from the throne | | | | deposed him (and) ruled 6 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 37 | (68) | | [Aššur-nārārī (II), | | | | son of Enlil-nāṣir (II), ruled 7 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| ii 38 | (69) | | [Aššur-bēl-nišēšu [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/mittanianhegemony/ashurbelnisheshu/index.html], son of Aššur-nārārī (II), | | | | ruled 9 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 1 | (70) | | [Aššur-r]êm-n[išēšu [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/mittanianhegemony/ashurremnisheshu/index.html], | | | | son of Aššur-bēl-nišēšu], |
| iii 2 | | | 8 [years | | | | he ruled]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 3 | (71) | | Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/mittanianhegemony/ashurnadinahheii/index.html] (II), son of >Aššur-rêm-nišē[šu, | | | | ruled 10 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 4 | (72) | | Erība-Adad [/riao/ria1/oldassyrianperiod/mittanianhegemony/eribaadadi/index.html] (I), son of >Aššur-bēl-nišēšu, | | | | [ruled 27 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 5 | (73) | | Aššur-uballiṭ [/riao/ria1/kingdomofassyria/ashuruballiti/index.html]
(I), son of Erība-Adad (I), | | | | 3[6 years he ruled]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 6 | (74) | | Enlil-nārārī [/riao/ria1/kingdomofassyria/enlilnarari/index.html], son of Aššur-uballiṭ (I), | | | | [ruled] 36 [years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 7 | (75) | | Arik-dīn-ili [/riao/ria1/kingdomofassyria/arikdinili/index.html], son of Enlil-nārārī, | | | | [ruled] 12 y[ears]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 8 | (76) | | Adad-nārārī [/riao/ria2/adadnararii/index.html] (I), brother, | | | | of Arik-dīn-ili, [ruled 32 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 9 | (77) | | Shalmaneser [/riao/ria2/shalmaneseri/index.html] (I), son of Adad-nārārī (I), | | | | [ruled] 30 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 10 | (78) | | Tukultī-Ninurta [/riao/ria2/tukultininurtai/index.html] (I), son of Shalmaneser (I), | | | | [ruled] 37 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 11 | | | Tukultī-Ninurta
(I) was alive(?), | | (79) | | Aššur-nādin-apli [/riao/ria2/ashurnadinapli/index.html], his son, |
| iii 12 | | | seized the throne | | | | (and) ruled 3 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 13 | (80) | | Aššur-nārārī (III), son of Ashurnasirpal [/riao/thekingdomofassyria1114884bc/ashurnasirpali/index.html] (I), | | | | ruled 6 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 14 | (81) | | Enlil-kudurrī-uṣur, son
of Tukultī-Ninurta (I), | | | | ruled 5 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 15 | (82) | | Ninurta-apil-Ekur [/riao/ria2/ninurtaapilekur/index.html],
son of Ilu-iḫadda, | | | | descendant of Erība-Adad (I), |
| iii 16 | | | he went to Karduniaš, | | | | from Karduniaš he went up, |
| iii 17 | | | he sized the throne, | | | | (and) ruled 3 years |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 18 | (83) | | Aššur-dān [/riao/ria2/ashurdani/index.html] (I), son of Ninurta-apil-Ekur [/riao/ria2/ninurtaapilekur/index.html], | | | | ruled 46 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 19 | (84) | | Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur, son of Aššur-dān (I), | | | | ... he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 20 | (85) | | Mutakkil-Nusku, | | | | his brother, fought with him, |
| iii 21 | | | to Karduniaš | | | | deported [him]; |
| iii 22 | | | ? ? Mutakkil-Nusku | | | | [held the throne, then he died]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 23 | (86) | | Aššur-rēša-iši [/riao/ria2/ashurreshaishii/index.html] (I), | | | | [son] of Mutakkil-Nus[k]u, |
| iii 24 | | | 18 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 25 | (87) | | Tiglath-pileser [/riao/ria3/tiglathpileseri/index.html] (I), | | | | son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), |
| iii 26 | | | 39 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 27 | (88) | | Ašarēd-apil-Ekur [/riao/ria3/asharedapilekur/index.html], | | | | son of Tiglath-pileser (I), |
| iii 28 | | | 2 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 29 | (89) | | Aššur-bēl-kala [/riao/ria3/ashurbelkala/index.html], | | | | son of Tiglath-pileser (I), |
| iii 30 | | | 18 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 31 | (90) | | Erība-Adad [/riao/ria3/eribaadadii/index.html] (II), | | | | son of Aššur-bēl-kala, |
| iii 32 | | | 2 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iii 33 | (91) | | Šamšī-Adad [/riao/ria3/shamshiadadiv/index.html]
(IV), | | | | son of Tiglath-pileser (I), |
| iii 34 | | | from Karduniaš | | | | he came up; |
| iii 35 | | | Erība-Adad [/riao/ria3/eribaadadii/index.html] (II), | | | | son of Aššur-bēl-kala, |
| iii 36 | | | he deposed from the throne; the throne (and) | | | | he seized (and) [ruled] 4 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 1 | (92) | | Ashurnasirpal [/riao/ria3/ashurnasirpali/index.html] (I), son of Šamšī-Adad (IV), | | | | ruled 19 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 2 | (93) | | [Shalmaneser [/riao/ria3/shalmaneserii/index.html]
(II), son of Ashurnasirpal
(I), | | | | ruled 12 years]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 3 | (94) | | [Aššur-nārārī [/riao/ria3/ashurnarariiv/index.html] (IV), | | | | son of Shalman]eser (II), |
| iv 4 | | | [6 years | | | | he rul]ed. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 5 | (95) | | Aššur-rabi [/riao/ria3/ashurrabiii/index.html] (II), | | | | son of Ashurnasirpal (I), |
| iv 6 | | | [41 years | | | | he rul]ed. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 7 | (96) | | [Aššur-rēša-iši [/riao/ria3/ashurreshaishiii/index.html]
(II), son of Aššur-rabi (II), | | | | ruled 5 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 8 | (97) | | [Tiglath-piles]er [/riao/ria3/tiglathpileserii/index.html] (II), | | | | son of Aššur-rēša-iši (II), |
| iv 9 | | | [32 y]ears | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 10 | (98) | | [Aššur-d]ān [/riao/ria3/ashurdanii/index.html] (II), | | | | son of Tiglath-pileser (II), |
| iv 11 | | | [23] years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 12 | (99) | | [Adad]-nārārī [/riao/ria3/adadnarariii/index.html]
(II), son of Aššur-dān (II), | | | | ruled 21 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 13 | (100) | | [Tukult]ī-Ninurta [/riao/ria3/tukultininurtaii/index.html]
(II), son of Adad-nārārī (II), | | | | ruled 7 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 14 | (101) | | [Ashur]nasirpal [/riao/ria4/index.html] (II), | | | | son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), |
| iv 15 | | | [52] years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 16 | (102) | | [Shalma]neser [/riao/ria5/shalmaneseriii/index.html] (III), son of Ashurnasirpal (II), | | | | ruled 35 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 17 | (103) | | [Šamš]ī-Adad [/riao/ria5/shamshiadadv/index.html] (V), | | | | son of Shalmaneser (III), |
| iv 18 | | | [13 ye]ars | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 19 | (104) | | [Adad-nārārī [/riao/ria5/adadnarariiii/index.html]
(III), son of Šamšī-Adad (V), | | | | ruled 28 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 20 | (105) | | [Shalmaneser [/riao/ria5/shalmeneseriv/index.html]
(IV), son of Ad]ad-nārārī (III), | | | | ruled 10 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 21 | (106) | | [Aššur-dā]n [/riao/ria5/ashurdaniii/index.html] (III), | | | | son of Shalmaneser (IV), |
| iv 22 | | | [18 years] | | | | he r[uled]. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 23 | (107) | | [Aššur-nārārī [/riao/ria5/ashurnarariv/index.html]
(V), son] of Adad-nārārī (III), | | | | ruled 10 years. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 24 | (108) | | [Tig]lath-pileser [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap1/]
(III), | | | | son of Aššur-nārārī (V), |
| iv 25 | | | 18 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 26 | (109) | | Shalmaneser [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap1/]
(V), | | | | son of Tiglath-pileser (III), |
| iv 27 | | | 5 years | | | | he ruled. |
| | | | | | | |
| iv 28 | | According to the original written (and) collated. | | | | |
| iv 29 | | Tablet of Bēl-šumu-iddin, the MAŠ.MAŠ-priest of Aššur. | | | | |
| iv 30 | | [Who] removes (the tablet), may Adad remove him. | | | | |
Selected Bibliography
Gelb, I.J., 'Two Assyrian Kinglists,' JNES 13 (1954), pp. 209-30.
Nathan Morello, 'The "SDAS List"', The Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo) Project, The RIAo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2023 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/kinglists/assyriankinglist/sdaslist/]