Assur Archive 18
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Poppy Tushingham
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May 11, 2023 11:22 AM
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History
At the eastern corner of the large ziggurat in Assur, a group of clay tablets were unearthed in a house in area hB4V. Forty clay tablets were found above a sarcophagus, 25 clay tablets were also located nearby and either some or all of them could belong to the first group. Additionally, a clay pot, containing 13 tablets, was found in a door opening of a different house. The texts seem to form a library, except for the tablets in the pot, which formed a separate archive (Assur Archive 51). The library, dating primarily to the 7th century BCE, belonged to a family of scribes and mainly contained documents pertaining to that profession: lexical lists, astronomical and astrological texts, omens, incantations, other literary texts, and drafts or copies of royal inscriptions.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/62104825
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- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Assur Archive 18 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Assur Archive 18 (English, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- N 2 Archive (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Assur Archive 18 located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Assur Archive 18 located near Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Assur Archive 51 located near Assur Archive 18 (720 BC - 540 BC)
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The library is located near the large ziqqurrat in Assur.
Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker, and Poppy Tushingham, 'Assur Archive 18: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/62104825> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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