The Middle Assyrian empire (ca. 1500‒1000 BCE) saw the expansion of the small state centred around the city of Assur (modern Qal'at Sherqat) towards the West. During the reign of Shalmaneser I (1273‒1244/1263‒1234 BCE), the rival state of Hanigalbat was defeated and new Assyrian colonies were founded at former settlements in the Habur region. Local administration from these places yielded, together with texts from the city of Aššur, a large number of over 3,000 cuneiform tablets.The Middle Assyrian period formally ends with the long reign of Tiglath-Pileser II (967–935 BCE), after which the Neo-Assyrian period started with a revival of Assyrian power under the leadership of Aššur-dān II (934–912 BCE). However, only a few texts can be dated to the period from the second half of the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I (1074–1056 BCE) onwards. The project Archival Texts of the Middle Assyrian Period, formerly Text Corpus of Middle Assyrian (TCMA), seeks to provide online transliterations, translations, and bibliographical references to Middle Assyrian administrative documents. The goal is to eventually provide editions of all administrative documents and Assyrian scholarly compositions.
Achival Texts from the Middle Babylonian Period is under construction.
