Assur Archive 48
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Thomas Seidler, Poppy Tushingham
Creators: Thomas Seidler, Poppy Tushingham
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 19, 2025 01:49 PM
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History
In a private house in fD8I, excavators discovered an archive of 45 clay tablets and 37 fragments of clay tablets, some of which have since been joined together. Two more clay tablets were located nearby in the same level. The tablets date to the 7th century. The archive, belonging to Nabu-zera-iddina and other goldsmiths, consists of letters, loans, purchase documents, lists of personal names, textiles and amounts of silver, as well as notes and four ‘Median’ texts, among others.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/919662719
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- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Assur Archive 48 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Assur Archive 48 (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- N 33 Archive (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Assur Archive 48 located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (720 BC - 540 BC)
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archive repository
Pleiades
The archive is located in a private house.
Thomas Seidler, Poppy Tushingham, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Assur Archive 48: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/919662719> [accessed: 17 May 2026]
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