ANET3, 282b; Wiseman, DOTT, 56–57; in detail, H. Tadmor, in Essays in honor of David Noel Freedman, 279–85). Rab-shakeh, Akk. “the chief butler,” occasionally written rab šaqê, but mostly in ideogram GAL BI.LUL, was a high official whose duties were usually restricted to the court and the king’s person. He never took part in military campaigns. Doubts concerning the authenticity of the three-member Assyrian delegation, originally raised by H. Winckler and followed by almost all modern commentators