Dur-Šarrukin Archive 1
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Thomas Seidler Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Three tiers of niches were found in Room H 5 (on the northwestern side of Forecourt I) of the Nabû temple at Dur-Šarrukin, the short-lived capital of the Assyrian king Sargon II (721–705 BC). Fragments of clay tablets and inscribed prisms in these niches suggest that a temple library was located here. The empty niches might be a result of the move of the capital to Nineveh under Sennacherib (704–681 BC) or of the use of perishable writing materials.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/110816878
36.507867, 43.228247
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Dur-Šarrukin Archive 1 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Dur-Šarrukin Archive 1 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Dur-Šarrukin Archive 1 located at Dur-Sharrukin (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Dur-Šarrukin Archive 1 located in Nabû temple (Khorsabad) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Dur-Šarrukin Archive 2 located near Dur-Šarrukin Archive 1 (720 BC - 540 BC)
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This archive is located in the Nabû temple.
Thomas Seidler, 'Dur-Šarrukin Archive 1: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/110816878> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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