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The Nimrud Tablets, 1950

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

D. J. Wiseman  and
J. V. Kinnier Wilson
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The Catalogue of the inscriptions discovered during the season of 1950 at Nimrud (Kalḫu) conforms with the system adopted for the publication of tablets discovered in 1949. This summary method of presentation appears to be the most practical way of recording the copious material with a minimum of delay. It is true that ideally a more detailed and definitive publication would be desirable, but it seems of greater importance to make available for scholars such information as can be gleaned from a considered study of the texts within a year of their discovery. Indeed it is doubtful if the contents, which in general conform to types of documents already known, warrant a fuller publication. Moreover the tablets themselves, like most unbaked Assyrian texts, are for the most part fragmentary. As each successive Expedition is likely to recover additional texts of the kind, the danger of postponing publication is all the more evident. It is therefore hoped that due allowance will be made for the inevitable imperfections, some of which might have been eliminated had more time and labour been available for the completion of our task.

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Research Article
Information
IRAQ , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1951 , pp. 102 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1951

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References

page 102 note 2 See Iraq XII, Pt. 2, 163ffGoogle Scholar, for a general account of the Governor's Palace and Plate XXVI loc, cit. where it is marked as “1949 Building” on the contour map of Nimrud. Room K was the small square room at the north-west comer of the building; Room M lay immedktely adjacent on the east side of it; Rooms S and U lay on the east side of the great courtyard which was in the centre of the building.

page 102 note 3 ND. 472, 475, 475, 478, 482, 492, 495, 496, 804.

page 103 note 1 Cf. ND, 1104 (to be published shortly).

page 104 note 1 ND. 412, 423, 431, 451, 456, 463.

page 104 note 2 ND. 427, 430, 445-7, 449, 430, 452.

page 104 note 3 Iraq XIII, Pt. 1, 21–24, Pl. XI.Google Scholar

page 105 note 1 ND. 814. Iraq XIII, Pt. 1, pp. 24–26, Pl. XII.Google Scholar

page 105 note 2 cf. Iraq XII, Pt. 2, Pl. XXVI for the location of these sites. Trench A50 was situated in squares F3, 4, and the B50 building in F5, 6. The latter is marked as “1950 Building” on the contour map.

page 109 note 1 Cf. CT XIV, II (93080), v. 3.

page 109 note 2 p. 103.

page 111 note 1 Iraq XII, Pt. 2, p. 194 (ND. 260).Google Scholar

page 112 note 1 Cf. C. H. W. Johns, Census Tablets from Harran.

page 112 note 2 Thompson, R. Campbell, Dictionary of Assyrian Botany, p. 310.Google Scholar

page 113 note 1 v. ND. 1101 (to be published).

page 115 note 1 Published by Thureau-Dangin in RA 18, p. 190, cp. Frank, MAOG xiv, 2, 1941.

page 115 note 2 L: [..]-e11-ne. Probably only one sign is missing.

page 115 note 3 L: im-bi-bi.

page 115 note 4 L: lú-šà-gin-na.

page 115 note 5 Restore L accordingly.

page 115 note 6 L: im-mar-tu, and the (chill) west wind,” which affords a better antithesis to im-bi-bi, and is more likely to be original.

page 115 note 7 Mr. Kinnier Wilson hopes to publish the copy, and further observations on the mà-e Pazuzu formula, in a later issue of Iraq.

page 118 note 1 Cf. BM. 90830 after two lines giving the name and genealogy of Aššurnaṣirpal commences with (al) Ḫubuškiaia (Annals i. 57) and ends abruptly after (al) Ḫalzidupḫa (middle of Annals i. 103). It is marked on the left edge, however, but should the gap of one line between the commencement of 90830 and ND. 811 be accidental the former might be the second in a series of (seven ?) tablets giving the complete Annals of this king's reign.

page 120 note 1 cf. 83-1-18, 695, ii, 23. Tallquist. APN 97b AN.KAR.AŠ is an error.