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its people and its rulers during this time. Surviving royal inscriptions from this time deal almost exclusively with building projects. What is known is that Puzur-Ashur and his successors after independence did not actually claim the dignity of being kings (sar), as the Akkadian and Sumerian suzerains had done, but instead continued to style themselves as governors (Issi'ak), asserting that the Assyrian national god Ashur was king and that the Assyrian rulers therefore were only his representatives on

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