Assur Archive 19
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Poppy Tushingham
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May 11, 2023 11:23 AM
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History
In a private house in Assur, cut into by the excavation trench 6III, researchers found the remains of a library and an archive, consisting of at least 136 tablets and possibly 52 more tablets. The texts date from the 8th and 7th centuries BCE. The two or three best-attested individuals in Assur Archive 19 held the title nargallu, "chief singer" or "musician". The library contained many hymns and similar texts, but also other literary texts such as myths, hemerological texts, royal inscriptions, and various lexical lists. The archive, mixed with the library, includes loan and purchase documents, as well as other texts.
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- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Assur Archive 19 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Assur Archive 19 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- N 3 Archive (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Assur Archive 19 located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (720 BC - 540 BC)
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The library is located in a private house in Assur.
Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker, and Poppy Tushingham, 'Assur Archive 19: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/418089678> [accessed: 17 March 2025]
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