3. Relatively certain

Eponym lists found in the Ancient Near East come from epochs earlier than the Archons and Consuls of Athens and Rome. Among the records are a collection of overlapping partial lists from the final three centuries of the Assyrian Empire. Historian stitched them together to form an Eponym List which consists of a remarkably unbroken sequence of over 250 names.

Without additional information, the sequence of named years can only furnish relative dates. However, the Eponym List includes a report of a solar eclipse in the year of eponym Bur-Saggile. Modern historians determined the eclipse occurred in 763 BC and thus established the absolute dates of List.  It spans the years 910-649 BC.