the use of a term introduced and made famous by A. Leo Oppenheim1—that is, concerned with religious activities like rituals and divination, the sciences like medicine, astronomy, and mathematics, and literature like mythology; and everyday texts like letters and administrative documents. In the early stages of Assyriology, it was the official statements that were the center of the study of Assyrian political and military history, and editions of these texts were among the first Assyrian source publications,