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Several short texts belonging to Aššurnasirpal II's reign are preserved on a significant number of clay hands from Nineveh and Calah. These include this text, as well as text nos. 115 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004569/], and 121-29. The following text is known from four exemplars, all found at Calah.

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121

This text is known from three inscribed clay hands found at the Ninurta temple in Calah. Text no. 122 was found at the same location. For more information on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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122

This text is known from one clay hand found at the Ninurta temple in Calah. Text no. 121 was found at the same location and is almost identical. For more information on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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123

This text is known from fourteen clay hands, all of which were found at Calah. For more on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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124

This text is preserved on four clays, all of which were found at Calah. For more on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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125

This text is preserved on one clay hand and several bricks, all of which were found at the North West Palace at Calah. For more on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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126

This text is preserved on seven clay hands, all of which were found at Nineveh. As the text states, the objects were originally the property of the Ištar temple at Nineveh. Text nos. 127 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004581/] and 128 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004582/] also come from Nineveh. For more on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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127

BM 090756 (ex. 4) © The Trustees of the British Museum.

This text is preserved on one clay hand and thirteen clay bricks, all of which were found at Nineveh. Some exemplars have the typical enclitic -ma at the end of the titles (see photo).
For more on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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128

This text is preserved on one clay hand found at Nineveh. Its current location is unknown. For more on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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129

This text is preserved on one clay hand of unknown provenance and stamped on fifteen clay bricks, all of which were found at Ashur. For more on clay hands, see the introduction to text no. 120.

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130

Five bricks found at the Ninurta temple at Calah bear this short inscription.

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131

This trapezoid brick bears a brief inscription. As the text informs us, the brick was originally located in the well of the temple of the divine Sibitti. For more on this temple, and Aššurnasirpal II's involvement with it, please refer to text no. 30 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004484/] (line 57) and text no. 110 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004564/] and its introduction.

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132

One trapezoid brick bears a brief inscription. As the text informs us, the brick was originally located in the well of the temple of the divine Kidmuru at Calah. For more on this temple, and Aššurnasirpal II's involvement with it, please refer to text no. 30 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004484/] (line 58) of this monarch.

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133

This text is known from three inscribed bricks, all of which come from the Ištar temple at Nineveh. The bricks commemorate Aššurnasirpal II's "complete" rebuilding of that temple.

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134

This text, which is very similar to text no. 133 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004587/], is preserved on two inscribed bricks and a fragment of alabaster bowl. As the text informs us, these objects were located at the Ištar temple at Nineveh, the rebuilding of which it commemorates.

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135

This brief text is preserved on twenty bricks, all of which come from the temple of Ištar at Nineveh. They commemorate Aššurnasirpal II's building work on that temple.

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136

This brief text is preserved on one inscribed clay brick and, as it informs us, was originally located at the Ištar temple at Nineveh. The text is very similar to no. 135 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004589/], save for the omission of "king of the universe" in line 1 and the fact that in line two the scribe has mistakenly written AŠ (Aššur) rather than INANNA (Ištar).

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137

This text is known from eight clay bricks. As the inscription informs us, they were originally located at the Bīt-natḫi shrine of the Ištar temple in Nineveh (for more on this, see the introduction to text no. 18 of this monarch's reign).

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138

FOur bricks found in the Aššur temple at Ashur (Eḫursagkurkurra) bear this badly preserved text of difficult interpretation, which clearly mentions the Kalkal Gate of the temple (where one of the exemplars was found). The text is similar [/riao/Q004592.4/] to a passage from a text of Shalmaneser I (no. 3: 22-25 [/riao/Q005791.22/]) and Grayson's edition restores it accordingly.

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In 2011, a glazed plaque bearing an inscription of Assurnasirpal II was discovered at Idu (modern Tell Satu Qala); it was used as fill in a wall. The text preserves the first two word of the one-line inscriptions; the king's titles are completely broken away.

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Nathan Morello & Poppy Tushingham

Nathan Morello & Poppy Tushingham, 'Inscriptions, texts nos. 120-add141', The Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo) Project, The RIAo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/theassyrianempire883745bc/ashurnasirpalii/texts120add141/]