Abstract
Sin-sarru-iskun, like his father Assurbanipal and his grandfather Esarhaddon, appears to have been actively engaged in building projects in Assur, Calah, and Nineveh. Bricks, clay cylinders, cones, prisms, and tablets discovered in these cities attest to restoration work on the Nabu temple in Assur, the Nabu temple in Calah, and the western entrance of the Alabaster House in Nineveh; this king also dedicated ornate, inscribed objects to several gods in Assur. In Assur, he rebuilt the Nabu temple. De-scriptions of the work are known from clay cylinders and prisms (Cylinder A), as well as from clay cone. Most of the Cylinder B fragments in the Kouyunjik collections of the British Museum unearthed in the 19th century likely come from Calah, rather than from Nineveh. The building report most likely describes the rebuilding of part of Ezida in Calah. Keywords: Assur; Calah; Ezida; Nabu temple; Nineveh; Sin-sarru-iskun
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