Assur Archive 21
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler, Poppy Tushingham Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Thomas Seidler, Poppy Tushingham Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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May 11, 2023 11:55 AM
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History
In what seems to be a Neo-Assyrian layer inside a Parthian house in hC10IV, excavators found the remains of a library, consisting of about 20 fragmentary clay tablets. The largest group of texts are incantations, but the library also included a prayer, lexical lists and a list of persons, as well as a literary text detailing the netherworld vision of an Assyrian prince. One of the texts, a memorandum, dates to the reign of Sin-šarru-iškun (ca. 626–612 BC).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794311060
35.454175, 43.262356
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Assur Archive 21 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Assur Archive 21 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- N 6 Archive (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Assur Archive 21 located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (720 BC - 540 BC)
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The library is located in a private house in Assur.
Thomas Seidler, and Poppy Tushingham, 'Assur Archive 21: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794311060> [accessed: 23 December 2024]
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