ISRAeLITe eMBASSIeS To ASSyRIA 189 nappa≈ parzilli (iron-smith) in line 13 and other skilled iron-workers (possibly from the Taurus region) called ßelappu in line 9 50. no me- nial workers are listed in this text. A number of specific individuals are also named: Ôilli-ißtar, Adad-uballiª, Mannu-k¥-Adad, and Ninurta-muk¥n-n¥ßi, of whom the first three appear to have been high-ranking royal officials in the early eighth century 51. Lines r. 14-r. 18 list five groups of foreigners, each of whom re- ceives a full jug of wine, more than any of the other groups listed earlier. The amount allocated, which is indicative of status, is a powerful argu- ment against seeing the foreigners as prisoners or servants. The names of territories that can be identified in these lines are ones likely to have sent tribute-bearing emissaries to Assyria in the early eighth century, after they were subdued by Adad-nirari III. Line r14 lists men of MuΔaΔir. Along with Hubußkia and Gilzanu, MuΔaΔir is located north of the Upper Zab, in the mountains southwest of Lake Urmia 52. Both Adad-nirari III (809-782) and his successor Shalmaneser Iv (781-772) campaigned in the area 53. Therefore, it is reasonable that ambassadors from MuΔaΔir would have been at the Assyrian court in the first third of the eighth century. Line r. 15 lists men of Samaria. As noted above, Samaria submitted to Assyria around 796 BCe. Line r16 is the most difficult line in this section of the document, and therefore it is discussed out of order in the appendix. Line r17 is broken, but Parpola suggested the reading [Íub]-ri-a-a, a territory on the upper reaches of the Tigris. Line r 18 lists men of [Ù]a-{za}-za-ayu, a town north of Arpad to which Adad-nirari III directed the campaign listed in the eponym list for 804 BCe. Thus, each of the territories mentioned in lines r15, 17, and 18 submitted to Assyria around the turn of the eighth century. The evidence of this list allows us to reconsider the relationship between Israel and Assyria in the early eighth century. nWL 4 seems to be solid evidence for Samarian emissaries in the Assyrian court during the period 791-779. This period corresponds largely to the beginning of the reign of Jeroboam II (790-749). As noted above, 50 For the latter term, see kInnIeR WILSon, The Nimrud Wine Lists, 65, 98. 51 See above. 52 S. yAMADA, The Construction of the Assyrian Empire, 30, 280; S. PARPoLA – M. PoRTeR, The Helsinki Atlas of the Near East in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Casco Bay, Me 2001) map 4. 53 Hubußkia is listed four times as the destination of the campaign of Adad- nirari III in the eponym lists; for years between 801 and 784, see MILLARD, The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 BC, 57-58.