Most of the texts included here list people in separate groups without professional designations for the individual members of the group. They are by no means uniform, in content or format: they include šelappayu and scribes (no. 13), and a variety of craftsmen (nos. 14, 19). Nos. 16 and 17 belong together although non-joining, and seem, like no. 15, to be concerned with military personnel.No. 18 includes royal charioteers, but also Marduk-eriba, the palace scribe, and a governor of Pumu (cf. no. 3:8'); a connection with nos. 1-12 seems quite likely here.
Nos. 20 to 22 ( and perhaps also no. 19) list groups by their professional designations without giving their names. It is impossible to say whether these texts are in any way related to the previous ones, although they could be. Of particular interest are nos. 21 and 22: these are near duplicates, evidently referring to the same bodies of people, with the numbers involved so high that one might guess that if they refer to the personnel (rather than some commodity, which seems unlikely) these final totals relate to the entire body of military, administrative or domestic personnel at Nineveh at the time.
F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate
F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate, 'Lists of Professional Groups (Nos. 13-22)', Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration, SAA 7. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1992; online contents: SAAo/SAA07 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2021 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa07/administrationofpersonnel/listsofprofessionalgroupsnos1322/]