The circumstances in which inscribed tablets were found during the first season's work at Nimrud (Kalḫu) in 1949 have already been described by the Director of the Expedition, Professor M. E. L. Mallowan. While excavating Rooms K and M of a large building located to the north of the “S.E. Palace” on the east side of the tall, seventy-six tablets were found scattered over or between the main floor level (III) formed by re-using the inscribed bricks of Shalmaneser III. Initially called “A palace of Shalmaneser III(?)”, this building is now, on the basis of the epigraphic evidence, referred to as “Governor's Palace”. Although considerable trouble was taken, the manner in which the unbaked tablets had been apparently thrown down, the damp nature of the ground in this area and the effect of exposure to adverse weather conditions in antiquity has resulted in most of the tablets being recovered in a poor condition, only ten of them being complete.