Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) [1] is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE. The tablet, measuring 11.6 cm high and 5 cm wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, [ a ] a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.
The Azekah Inscription, is a tablet inscription of the reign of Sennacherib (reigned 705 to 681 BC) discovered in the mid-nineteenth century in the Library of Ashurbanipal. It was identified as a single tablet by Nadav Na'aman in 1974. It describes an Assyrian campaign by Sennacherib against Hezekiah, King of Judah, including the conquest of ...
Many of the tablets are indeed composed in the Neo-Babylonian script, but many were also known to be written in Assyrian as well. [13] The tablets were often organized according to shape: four-sided tablets were for financial transactions, while round tablets recorded agricultural information.(In this era, some written documents were also on ...
Anti-Assyrian sentiment, also known as anti-Assyrianism and Assyriophobia, is a diverse spectrum of negative feelings, dislikes, fears, aversion, racism, derision and/or prejudice towards Assyrians, Assyria, and Assyrian culture (as well as towards Chaldeans and Syriacs).
The tablets were composed by Babylonian astronomers ("Chaldaeans") who probably used the Astronomical Diaries as their source. Almost all of the tablets were identified as chronicles once in the collection of the British Museum , having been acquired via antiquities dealers from unknown excavations undertaken during the 19th century.
The first fragment published, K 3500, was published in the mid-nineteenth century. It was identified as a combined tablet by Hugo Winckler in his Altorientalische Forschungen, II ("Ancient Near Eastern Studies") in 1898. [1] The treaty was part of a large two-column tablet containing an account of Esarhaddon's conquest of Eber Nari.
Sargon II's Prisms are two Assyrian tablet inscriptions describing Sargon II's (722 to 705 BC) campaigns, discovered in Nineveh in the Library of Ashurbanipal. The Prisms today are in the British Museum. [1] [2] An excerpt of the text as translated by Luckenbill as below: "... Philistia, Judah, Edom, Moab ...". [citation needed]
Tell the lady Zinu: Iddin-Sin sends the following message: May the gods Shamash, Marduk and Ilabrat keep you forever in good health for my sake. From year to year, the clothes of the young gentlemen here become better, but you let my clothes get worse from year to year.