Assur Archive 27

other · 720 BC – 2099 AD

In a house in dA9III, next to the outer surface of the ruined inner town wall, excavators discovered a room with a sarcophagus, two graves and a grave with sherds. In this room, they found an archive of about 38 clay tablets above the sarcophagus, one clay tablet in the grave with sherds and 3 fragmentary tablets in another sarcophagus just outside the ruined town wall. Whether the last group belongs to the same house is unclear. The archive, dating from 698 to the final years of the Assyrian Empire, probably belonged to a man called Nabu-šuma-iddina, although other men are attested as well. Texts include purchase documents concerning houses, slaves and fields, loan documents and juridical settlements, as well as some other types of documents, as well as a fragmentary tablet with the second half of a bilingual literary composition called Examination Text A.

Coordinates
35.45813, 43.25741
Also known as
Assur Archive 22 (en), Assur Archive 24 (en), Assur Archive 25 (en), Assur Archive 26 (en), Assur Archive 28 (en), Assur Archive 29 (en), Assur Archive 30 (en), Assur Archive 31 (en), Assur Archive 32 (en), Assur Archive 33 (en), Assur Archive 34 (en), Assur Archive 35 (en), Assur Archive 36 (en), Assur Archive 37 (en), Assur Archive 38 (en), Assur Archive 39 (en), Assur Archive 40 (en), Assur Archive 41 (en), Assur Archive 42 (en), Assur Archive 43 (en), Assur Archive 44 (en), Assur Archive 45 (en), Assur Archive 46 (en), Assur Archive 47 (en), Assur Archive 48 (en), Assur Archive 52a (en), Assur Archive 52b (en), N 10 Archive (en), N 11 Archive (en), N 12 Archive (en), N 13 Archive (en), N 14 Archive (en), N 15 Archive (en), N 16 Archive (en), N 17 Archive (en), N 18 Archive (en), N 19 Archive (en), N 20 Archive (en)
Dating
attested

Sources

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