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Assur Archive 38
In the street from the Tabira gate into the city (bE7I), excavators found a stone with inscription and small archive of 11 clay tablets in a secondary context. The archive may have belonged to a nearby house. Two tablets are dated to 686 B.C, and another is dated to 675 BC. The archive contains documents such as loans, a purchase document, a document concerning the dissolution of a marriage, as well as an adoption document.
ANE
Assyrian
Assur Archive 38
N 23 Archive
Pedersén 1998 141
ATAE Assur 38 (N 23)
Pedersén 1986 114–115
Pleiades
Assur Archive 38
In the street from the Tabira gate into the city (bE7I), excavators found a stone with inscription and small archive of 11 clay tablets in a secondary context. The archive may have belonged to a nearby house. Two tablets are dated to 686 B.C, and another is dated to 675 BC. The archive contains documents such as loans, a purchase document, a document concerning the dissolution of a marriage, as well as an adoption document.
An archive repository as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: buildings or rooms for long-term storage or depositing of archives or documents
archive repository
twentieth century of the common era
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N 23 Archive
Modern scholarly designation for the archive.
N 23 Archive
ANE
Assyrian
2099
1900
Pedersén 1998 141
Pleiades
twenty-first century of the common era
ME [[-720,-540]]
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC)
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Plan location of Assur Archive 38
Representative locations of the Neo-Assyrian archive at Assur on the basis of Pedersén 1987 Plan(s) 62.
ANE
Assyrian
-540
-720
Pedersén 1998 plan 62
Pleiades
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Assur Archive 38
Modern scholarly designation for the archive.
Assur Archive 38
ANE
Assyrian
2099
1900
Pedersén 1986 114–115
Pleiades