User:Ichthyovenator/Eponym dating system

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon/downloads/millard_saas_2_intro_1994.pdf

Sequence
Up until the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, kings generally held the office of limmu in their second regnal year. This practice ceased with Tiglath-Pileser, who was limmu in his third year, and kings thereafter took the office at various points in their reigns.

Neo-Assyrian period
A number of texts with lists of eponyms allow researchers to securely reconstruct the sequence of eponyms from 910 to 649 BC, a period of eponyms referred to as the Neo-Assyrian "eponym canon". The eponym canon here follows Millard (1998), combining information from both eponym lists and eponym chronicles. Though the "post-canonical" eponyms from after 649 BC are known from individual documents, their order is not known since no list covering this time is known. The "post-canonical" eponyms listed here follow a 1998 reconstruction by Simo Parpola, used in The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

King (šar)

Commander-in-chief (turtānu)

Chamberlain (masennu)

Grand vizier (sukkallu)

Provincial governor (bēl pāhiti or šaknu)

Palace herald (nāgir ekalli)

Chief cupbearer (rab šāqê)

Great eunuch (rab ša-rēši)