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The Nimrud Tablets, 1951

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

D. J. Wiseman
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The inscriptions found at Nimrud (Kalḫu) during the last season were notable for their variety and historical interest rather than for their quantity. The largest and most important discovery was a stela of Aššur-naṣir-pal II located in a recess to the left of the doorway leading into the throne-room of the North-West Palace, the construction and dedication of which it records. This has given many new details, especially concerning the royal hunt, the lay-out of the city park and the lavish ten-day entertainment given to 69,574 guests when the reconstruction of Kalḫu had been completed in 879 B.C. This text has been published in full on pages 29-39, and illustrated on Plates VII-XI. Two other inscriptions of the same king found this season were already known from the earlier excavations of Layard in the throne-room (1845-7). These were the large two-stepped throne base inscribed with the usual standard inscription of Aššur-naṣir-pal but giving additional details of his expedition to the Mediterranean (ND. 1122) and a stone tablet with the common “Inscription from the Wall of Calah” (ND. 1121) of which duplicates have been found in previous seasons.

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Research Article
Information
IRAQ , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Spring 1952 , pp. 61 - 71
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1952

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References

page 61 note 1 ND. 201, 816, 817, 819, 820.

page 61 note 2 ND. 1107, 1108, 1111, 1112, 1113.

page 61 note 3 v. L. Waterman, Koyal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire.

page 61 note 4 ND. 1117, 1118, 1119, 1124, 1125.

page 61 note 5 ND. 1106, 1115. Cf. from previous seasons ND. 806-9, 813.

page 62 note 1 See page 54.

page 62 note 2 ND. 1101, 1110, 1114, 1116.

page 62 note 3 See pages 70-71.

page 65 note 1 Cf. Ilu-ba-ru and Am-bu-ru (Tallquist, , Assyriern Personal Names, 96b)Google Scholar.

page 65 note 2 v. A.F.O. X., 26, 153-4.

page 65 note 3 Cf. ND. 277, 278.

page 65 note 4 Cf. K. Fr. Miller, Texte zum assyrischen Königsritual (M.V.A.G. 41, 3).

page 65 note 5 This word does not appear to be known from other ritual texts.

page 65 note 6 Thureau-Dungin, F., La Huitième Campagne de Sargon (714 B.C.), l. 428Google Scholar.

page 65 note 7 For this interpretation v. The Nimrud Tablets 1950 (Iraq XIII, Pt. 2, 150)Google Scholar which would apparently preclude an identification with Aššur. Nicolo, San. Babylonische Kechtsurkunden (8-7 Jahrh. v. Ch.)A.B.A. W. (NF) 34 (1951), 110, 12, 14)Google Scholar has a reference to (alu) libbi-ali near or in Babylon.

page 66 note 1 Marked on Plan III, Layard, , Nineveh and its Remains, Vol. I, opp. p. 62Google Scholar.