eponym

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Bêlshunu's identity The Bêlshunu here named is probably the Eponym of b.c.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Thus is ushered in, in the Eponym Canon, one of the most important reigns in Assyrian history.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

The Eponym lists are merely lists of the officials who dated each year in rotation, and they seem to have been compiled for practical calendar purposes.

From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)

In Assyrian history the Eponym Canon certainly goes back to about b.c.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Short as it is, however, it is probably of as much value historically as the Assyrian Eponym Canon in its present state, even including the restorations from that without historical notices.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge