Governor's Palace at Kalhu

palace · 1000 BC – 2099 AD

This beautifully-decorated Assyrian palace is located just north of the Nabû temple Ezida, in the southeast quarter of the citadel of Kalhu (biblical Calah, modern Nimrud). The building likely served as the office and/or residence of several important individuals in the administration of the Assyrian Empire, probably including the governor of Kalhu. Numerous cuneiform tablets were discovered in three rooms north of the central courtyard. Because many of those Akkadian texts relate to the activities of several governors, British excavators in the 1950s dubbed the building the "Governor's Palace."

Coordinates
36.09786, 43.32984
Also known as
1949 Building (en), Governor's Palace (en)
Dating
attested

Sources

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Governor's Palace at Kalhu — Ancient Maps