Inscribed Chests Relating to Temple Offerings from Assur

in this article we present the fragments of three inscribed stone chests unearthed during the German excavations carried out at Assur at the beginning of the twentieth century. A description of the objects and their contexts is followed by an edition and discussion of the inscriptions, two of which bear a list of offerings, one a dedicatory inscription. While in the offering lists the only divine name preserved is that of the goddess Šulmanitu, it seems likely that the full text listed offerings to multiple deities living in the Temple of Ištar in Assur.