Kalhu Archive 12
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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May 11, 2023 03:08 PM
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History
An archive repository was discovered in Rooms K, M, and S of the Governor's Palace at Kalhu. This group of 217 clay tablets belongs to five successive governors of the city and dates from 835 BC to 710 BC. Apart from one literary text and a perfume recipe, the tablets discovered in Rooms K and M are generally legal documents, whereas the tablets in Room S are administrative texts. and letters (usually addressed to the governors).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/135157920
36.098078, 43.330142
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Kalhu Archive 12 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Kalhu Archive 12 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Kalhu Archive 12 located in Governor's Palace at Kalhu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Kalhu Archive 12 located at Nimrud (720 BC - 540 BC)
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This archive is located in the Governor’s Palace.
Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Kalhu Archive 12: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/135157920> [accessed: 13 May 2024]
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