Assur Archive 16
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler, Poppy Tushingham Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Thomas Seidler, Poppy Tushingham 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 11:55 AM
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History
In the area of the western outer wall of the prince’s palace in Assur, in lA9II, as well as in other parts of the palace, a library and an archive were found. Assur Archive 16 consists of at least 89 clay tablets, a small prism and two cylinder fragments, as well as an Aramaic docket. The texts date from 708 to 658 BC, with one text dating to the time of Adad-nirari I (1305–1274 BC). The texts mostly consist of incantations, including incantations for protection, against sickness or against an enemy. Other texts include prescriptions against sickness, a portion of the poem of the righteous sufferer, a hemerology, a list of eponyms, historical texts, as well as administrative documents such as a list of cow- and sheep-hides, a letter, a field purchase document, a legal settlement, and the Aramaic docket.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/459415385
35.455828, 43.265081
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Assur Archive 16 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Assur Archive 16 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- N 5 Archive (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Assur Archive 16 located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Assur Archive 16 located near Crown Prince's Palace at Assur (720 BC - 540 BC)
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The library is located in a private house, west of the prince's palace.
Thomas Seidler, and Poppy Tushingham, 'Assur Archive 16: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/459415385> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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