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Two Historical Inscriptions from Nimrud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

D. J. Wiseman
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It is proposed to anticipate the publication of the complete catalogue of the epigraphical material found at Nimrud during the 1950 season by this short account of two historical inscriptions.

While clearing Room U of the “Governor's Palace” a single kiln-baked fragment of a tablet was uncovered about 1 metre above a brick floor. The circumstances of stratification therefore suggest that this tablet lay in rubbish which was part of the filling used to raise the level of the Governor's Palace, probably after the death of King Sargon. See also Iraq, Pt. 2, 163 f., for evidence of stratification and successive floors of occupation. ND. 400 would seem to come from a large tablet similar to K 3751 found in 1873 by G. Smith in the Nabu Temple to the south-east of this room.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Spring 1951 , pp. 21 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1951

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References

page 21 note 1 cf. The Nimrud Tablets, 1949. Iraq, XII, p. 184ffGoogle Scholar.

page 21 note 2 Measures × 3½ in. Parts of 27 ll. remain. The script is slightly larger than in K 3751, which is probably written by the same scribe. N.D.400 is the centre third of the obverse of a tablet of similar size.

page 21 note 3 Smith, G., Assyrian Discoveries, p. 74Google Scholar and II R., 67.

page 21 note 4 III R., 10, No. 2.

page 21 note 5 Rost, P., Keihchrifttexte Tiglat-pilesers III i, 78–83, Plate XXVGoogle Scholar.

page 21 note 6 K 3751 is a summary account only.

page 21 note 7 2 Kings XV, 19.

page 21 note 8 Epon. Canon, ana (mat) Pi-liš-ta

page 22 note 1 Rost, Plate XXV, 6.

page 22 note 2 Since writing the above, Sayid Fuad Safar has kindly shown me a new version of the Annals of Shalmaneser III recently acquired by the Iraq Museum and shortly to be published by him in Sumer (IM 55644). The king records conquests in the district of Til Barsip and Pitru “previously occupied by Tiglath-pileser (I)” (cf. Luckenbill, , Ancient Records, § 603Google Scholar, and Sumer VI, I, p. 12Google Scholar—col. i, ll, 60–61).

Among the places listed in col. i, l, 42 is the river sa-gur-ri. It is therefore probable that ll, 20–27 of the Nimrud fragment is part of a detailed account of Tiglath-pileser's approach to Damascus in 733 B.C. through this same area. His objective may have been to isolate Damascus from possible Urartian aid, just as he had cut Rezin off from any assistance from Egypt by his Philistinian campaign in the previous year.

page 24 note 1 For stratification see Iraq, XII Pt. 2, p. 180Google Scholar. Measures 3in × 3in. × 1 in. (thick).

page 24 note 2 Streck, Assurbanipal Cyl. B. cf. Piepkorn, , Historical Inscriptions of Assurbanipal, B, ll. 35–57 (pp. 76–79)Google Scholar.

page 25 note 1 Theo. Bauer, , Das Inschriftawerk, Assurbanipals, pp. 17–23 and place 12Google Scholar. (Prism C = K. 1794.)