The eponymy of
Kidin-A"lur is known from three Middle Assyrian tablets now in the Istanbul Arkeoloji Miizeleri. One tablet, A. 2994, has already been published by J. A. Brinkman and V. Donbaz'; the remaining two, A. 1051 and A. 3310, are included here in copy, transliteration, and translation. Recent scholarly publications have dated this eponymy to the time of Tukulti-Ninurta I (c. 1244-1208 B.C.), but the evidence of the texts discussed here indicates that it fell in the reign of Tiglath-pileser I (c. 1113-1076 B.C.). Text 1: A. 1051 obv. 8 KUS rANSE.JUB21.MES ga E2.GAL-lim 9a SU mIBILA-ia AGRIG.GAL<-e> AN.NA.MES URUDU.MES 5. a-na bu-ul MAN2 (erasure) edge i-na lib-b6 i-li-li?3 rev. mx-x-dg/S U ma-[bi-]ir ITI a-bu.MAN.MES-ni 10. UD 13 KAM2 li-mu mki-din-ag-gur 8 mule-hides belonging to the palace, from Aplija the great abarakku, tin and copper for the royal service, under the 1. "Two Middle Assyrian Texts from Assur," ZA 75 (1985) 79. 2. According to CAD UJ 232, bgilu (which in Nuzi seems to refer to roads on which wagons travel) replaces barranu from the Middle Assyrian period onward. bu-ul MAN is therefore synonymous with barran Iarri, "the king's expedition." 3. The reading of Ilili is not certain; not only is the personal name not preceded by the determinative for masculine names, it is not attested in Middle Assyrian texts. 217 JCS 41/2 (1989)