King of Assyria · the literate king · builder of the Library of Nineveh · collector of the Mesopotamian canon

King of Babylon · co-king under Esarhaddon’s succession plan · rebelled against his brother Ashurbanipal

Chief scholar · royal adviser · head of the scholarly establishment · author of letters of state

Senior royal scholar · scribal teacher of Ashurbanipal · exorcist · interpreter of omens

Custodian of the girginakku · cataloguer of the thirty thousand tablets · keeper of the colophons

Tablet cataloguer · colophon assigner · ummânu · the hand that inscribed the canonical texts