Assur Archive 52a
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors:
Poppy Tushingham
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Last modified
May 11, 2023 12:43 PM
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History
In a fill from various rooms of a private house (in area eA8V), excavators discovered an archive of 75 texts, belonging to Duri-Aššur and his business partners. The archive consists of letters, purchase and loan documents, divisions of inheritance, and other legal documents, as well as administrative lists. Most of these texts are concerned with trade. The available datings suggest that Duri-Aššur and his business partners were active in the trade north of Assur from 651 to the destruction of the city in 614 BC. Notably, some documents exemplify the financial independency of Egyptian women in Assur.
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- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Assur Archive 52a (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Assur Archive 52a (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Assur Archive 52a located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Assur Archive 52b located near Assur Archive 52a (720 BC - 540 BC)
archive repository
Pleiades
The archive is located in a private house.
Thomas Seidler, and Poppy Tushingham, 'Assur Archive 52a: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/87246780> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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