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A Neo-Assyrian Tablet from Tell al Rimah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

J. N. Postgate
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Tr. 4001, which forms the subject of this note, was found in 1967 in late Assyrian fill above the north-eastern corner of the earlier temple; it lay above the line of that temple's north façade, just to the north of room II (see the plan in Iraq 30 (1968), Plate XXVIII). The tablet was therefore found fairly close to the neo-Assyrian shrine, but above it, and the late Assyrian terracing of the temple-zigurrat mound suggests that there may have been building on its summit, which would constitute an equally plausible provenance for our tablet.

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Research Article
Information
IRAQ , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Spring 1970 , pp. 31 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1970

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References

1 The tablet measures 8.7 cm × 5.6 cm × 3.3 cm (thick); see Iraq 30(1968), 87CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed for a preliminary notice of the text by Stephanie Page, to whom I am very grateful for suggesting that I should undertake its publication.

I should also like to express my gratitude to the Director-General of Antiquities and the staff of the Iraq Museum for permission to study the tablet, and for their unfailinglyready assistance.

2 The same suggestion has now been made by G. van Driel, in the Stellingen to his thesis, The Cult of Aššur.

3 šapūsu also occurs in ADD 389, 3 (= ARU 170, 2), and this text may therefore also have been an exchange text. ADD 252 (= ARU 633) is an exchange text without the term šapūsu.

4 Similar practices are known for exchange texts from Nuzu and the Old Babylonian period; see e.g. Steele, F. R., AOS 25, 62–4Google Scholar.