Kalhu Archive 2
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
Two eighth-century-B.C. archives were excavated in Fort Shalmaneser, a building complex in the southeastern corner of the city Kalhu. Eleven tablets were found in Room SW 6, a wine store. The archive contains wine lists, as well as notes about the delivery of wine to the palace.
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- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Kalhu Archive 2 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Kalhu Archive 2 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Kalhu Archive 2 located in Fort Shalmaneser (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Kalhu Archive 2 located near Kalhu Archive 3 (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Kalhu Archive 2 located at Nimrud (720 BC - 540 BC)
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This archive is located in Fort Shalmaneser.
Plan 67. Kalhu. Plan of Fort Shalmaneser with archives Kalhu 1–5. From M. E. L. Mallowan, NR (1966), folding VIII.
Thomas Seidler, 'Kalhu Archive 2: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/562815439> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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