19. Post-canonical

The Assyrian Empire endured until the destruction of Nineveh circa 612 BC, nearly four decades after the last year named in the Eponym List. Documents during the final years were still dated by eponym, but no listing of the post-canonical names has been found.

The task of resolving the post-canonical sequence is complicated by an overabundance of eponyms. The 50 eponyms found in dated documents have to fit into about 37 years. A recent study of the cohort commander Kakkullanu brings some order to the later eponyms.