Nineveh Archive 6

archaeological site · 720 BC – 2099 AD

A clay pot with about thirty clay tablets was found to the north of the Šamaš Gate at Nineveh, in a secondary context. The archive, whose texts are dated between 669 BC and the fall of Nineveh (612 BC), belonged to Ninurta-šarru-uṣur (“the son of the palace”), as well as to several other people, including some Egyptians. This small archive consists of loan and purchase documents, legal texts, as well as a piece of correspondence.

Coordinates

36.35098, 43.17542

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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