184 SHAWn ZeLIG ASTeR generally, we can posit that this text dates to the first third of the eighth century, because a dating to the time of Tiglath-Pileser III is incompatible with the other datable texts in the find-spot. The text itself is of interest for our purposes chiefly because it de- scribes allocations of wine, first to named officials, and then to a series of groups named by their countries. Line r. 14 records an allocation of a jug to the people of MuΔaΔir 29, line r. 15 records the allocation of a jug to the “Samarians”, and line r. 16 records an allocation to k[ur D]a?-ni-i ßa bit-a-nim, whom kinnier Wilson understands to be people of the Biblical city of Dan 30. Although not germane to the central argument, the identification of the people in line r. 16 as those of the northern Israelite city of Dan calls for comment. It seems fairly clear that this line refers to the same group mentioned in nWL 18 (nD 10052), line 23, where the text reads ku]r Dan-ni-ayu. kinnier Wilson notes that no ethnic group with this name is known elsewhere in the cuneiform sources, and he therefore understands Da-ni-i/Dan-ni-ayu as a reference to people of the biblical city of Dan. This is supported by the mention of this group in nWL 4 right after the mention of the Samaritans. However, SAA XII, 86/ABL 372 is a report on the arrival of horses which lists the city of Dana along with kullania as the place of origin of certain horses 31. From the mention of the two sites together, it can be inferred that they are near each other, and Parpola and Porter, therefore, locate the city of Dana at modern ad-Dana, located northeast of Tell Tayinat, ancient kullania/kunalua 32. While it is not possible to definitively identify the Danites of nWL 18 and nWL 4 as either Israelite Dan or ad-Dana near kullania/kunalua, serious questions are raised by the former identification. It is unclear why a separate delegation of Danites from northern Israel would have arrived in Assyria, unless Dan was a separate political entity at that time, sending its own envoys to Assyria separate from those of Samaria. In support of ad-Dana near kullania/kunulua, we note the campaigns of Adad-nirari III in 29 The text reads mu-Δir-a-a. kinnier Wilson (The Nimrud Wine Lists, 133) suggests this may be an error for Mu-Δur-a-a, understanding it to refer to egyptians (The Nimrud Wine Lists, 93). Parpola reads Mu-<Δa>-Δir-a-a: S. PARPoLA, “Review of kinnier Wilson, The Nimrud Wine Lists”, JSS 21 (1976) 165-174, here 167. 30 kInnIeR WILSon,The Nimrud Wine Lists, 93. 31 SAA XII refers to L. kATAJA and R. WHITInG, Grants, Decrees, and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period (State Archives of Assyria volume 12; Helsinki: Helsinki, 1995). 32 PARPoLA – PoRTeR, The Helsinki Atlas of the Near East, map 2 grid C4.