Kalhu Archive 15
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors:
Jamie Novotny
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 10, 2022 09:31 AM
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History
British excavators found fragments of at least eight or nine large clay tablets in the Throne Room of the Nabû Temple (Ezida). These now-fragmentarily-preserved tablets, all of which date to 672 BC, contain copies of treaties that seventh-century-BC Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 680–669 BC) made with several Median client rulers. These ‘covenant’ documents — which are often referred to as “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty” or “Esarhaddon’s Vassal Treaty” — were written up to ensure loyalty to Ashurbanipal, Esarhaddon’s fourth eldest son, when he ascended the Assyrian throne upon the death of his father.
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36.097283, 43.330328
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Kalhu Archive 15 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Kalhu Archive 15 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Kalhu Archive 15 located in Ezida (Kalhu) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Kalhu Archive 15 located at Nimrud (720 BC - 540 BC)
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This archive is located in the Nabû Temple.
Thomas Seidler, and Jamie Novotny, 'Kalhu Archive 15: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/889344379> [accessed: 27 March 2025]
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