Printer-friendly version| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Nimrud Wine Lists | J.V. Kinnier Wilson | 1972 |
| The Governor’s Palace Archive | J.N. Postgate | 1973 |
| The Tablets from Fort Shalmaneser | S. Dalley & J.N. Postgate | 1984 |
| Literary Texts from the Temple of Nabû | D.J. Wiseman & J.A. Black | 1996 |
| The Nimrud Letters 1952 | H.W.F. Saggs | 2001 |
| Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel | S. Herbordt, R. Mattila, B. Parker (†), J.N. Postgate and D.J. Wiseman (†) | 2019 |
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The Nimrud Wine Lists
The Governor’s Palace Archive
The Tablets from Fort Shalmaneser
Out of print.
Literary Texts from the Temple of Nabû
The library of Nimrud, probably established in 798 BC, was a prestigious royal foundation whose scribes had contacts all over the East, particularly with Nineveh. The 259 cuneiform tablets and fragments which constituted the library mainly described magical and medical rituals, prayers and instructions for training scribes. All the epigraphic finds from Sir Max Mallowan's excavations of 1955-7 are described in this volume, with additional material from the Iraq Archaeological Service's excavations of 1985.
Literary Texts from the Temple of Nabû
The Nimrud Letters 1952
In 1952 in one wing of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Max Mallowan excavated an archive room containing royal correspondence from the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II of Assyria. Subjects include Assyrian military activity in Babylonia and on the northern frontier, royal building projects, events on the Phoenician seaboard, and relations with King Midas of Phrygia. Some texts were published in Iraq between 1955 and 1974; the majority have remained unpublished until now. Two hundred and forty-three texts are published here; most are in New Assyrian script and the remainder in New Babylonian. Chapters divide the tablets into the geographical areas they are concerned with. The texts are presented with transliterations, translation and notes. Plates at the end of the book give facsimiles of the tablets.
Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel
CTN 6.pdf This penultimate volume of CTN provides an up-to-date edition and commentary on two major archives from the Kalhu acropolis, from the field seasons of 1953-1956: the business documents (mostly grain loans on triangular dockets) and a few administrative texts from the Nabu Temple (Part I: texts Nos. 1-59) and the legal documents from the household of Šamaš-šarru-uṣur (Part II: Nos. 60-115); also included are three texts from the “Town Wall Palace” (Part III: Nos. 116-118). S. Herbordt provides a new study of the seal impressions based on drawings and photos, and photographs of both the impressions and unsealed tablets are included where available. The handcopies on Plates 1-44 are from Wiseman, Parker, Postgate and Mattila.
Many of these texts were edited previously by Wiseman and Parker in articles in Iraq, but some were only catalogued and others had lain for years uncopied in both the Iraq Museum and the British Museum. Bringing them all together has enabled a more detailed study of the two main archives with the benefit of the advances in our understanding of Neo-Assyrian over the last half century. This gives a valuable insight into the activities of both a major temple and an elite household in the 8th-7th centuries BC.