Assur Archive 53
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors:
Poppy Tushingham
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May 11, 2023 12:43 PM
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History
In a private house, south of the Parthian Palace, near the western wall of the New City of Assur, excavators discovered an archive of 52 clay tablets. Of the 34 published tablets, most date to the postcanonical period. The only two exceptions date to 679 and 666 BC. and two tablets are undated. The archive, belonging to Aššur-matu-taqqin, contains purchase documents, loan documents, juridicial settlements, a letter, an adoption document, and others.
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- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Assur Archive 53 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Assur Archive 53 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Assur Archive 53 located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (720 BC - 540 BC)
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The archive is located in a private house.
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Thomas Seidler, and Poppy Tushingham, 'Assur Archive 53: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/758846965> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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