An example is "month: 'Belat-ekallim'; eponym: 'Qis-Amurrim, son of Apapa'". Excavations found several hundred Old Assyrian period inscriptions on tablets and bricks, many fragmentary. A few cylinder seals from this period were found at Assur (one of a ruler, Irishum I), though only from their clay sealings. Local rulers rarely and lightly affected Assur, mostly on matters of wide trading interest. An example would be Ilusumma where a text of his (BM 115690 found in the Istar temple at Assur) reads:

Shamshi-Adad I Dynasty