Assur Archive 51
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Poppy Tushingham
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 11, 2023 11:24 AM
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History
At the eastern corner of the large ziggurat in Assur, a library, belonging to a family of scribes, was unearthed in a house in area hB4V (Assur Archive 18). In a door opening of a small house nearby, excavators found a clay pot with 13 tablets inside. This separate archive belongs to Aššur-bissu-epuš and other men. It also dates to the 7th-century BCE. and contains various types of documents, including a juridical settlement and a document concerning the deposit of a chair.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/637947000
35.459547, 43.261508
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Assur Archive 51 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Assur Archive 51 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- N 2M Archive (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Assur Archive 51 located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Assur Archive 51 located near Assur Archive 18 (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Assur Archive 51 located near Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur (720 BC - 540 BC)
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The archive is located in a private house near the large ziggurat in Assur.
Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker, and Poppy Tushingham, 'Assur Archive 51: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/637947000> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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