Limmu was an Assyrian eponym. At the beginning of the reign of an Assyrian king, the limmu, an appointed royal official, would preside over the New Year festival at the capital. Each year a new limmu would be chosen. The Assyrians used the name of the limmu for that year to desginate the year on official documents. Lists of limmus have been found accounting for every year between 892 and 648 BC.

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