Nineveh Archive 3
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors:
Jamie Novotny
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Last modified
May 11, 2023 12:50 PM
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History
In the Palace of Sennacherib (South-West Palace) at Nineveh, in Room LIV, nineteenth-century British excavators found the remains of an archive consisting of cuneiform tablets, some of which also included summary notes in Aramaic.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/567651620
36.356533, 43.15125
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Nineveh Archive 3 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Nineveh Archive 3 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Nineveh Archive 3 located at Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Nineveh Archive 3 located in Palace of Sennacherib (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Nineveh Archive 2 located near Nineveh Archive 3 (720 BC - 540 BC)
archive repository
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This archive is located in the South-West Palace. Exact findspots do not exist for tablets from the nineteenth century excavations.
Thomas Seidler, and Jamie Novotny, 'Nineveh Archive 3: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/567651620> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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