Nimrud Letters

The Nimrud Letters are an archive of 244 Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian cuneiform letters found at Nimrud in 1952 during the excavations led by Max Mallowan of the British School of Archaeology.[1] The letters were published by H. W. F. Saggs.[2]

The majority of the tablets were found in Room ZT 4, where ZT stands for Z[iggurat]T[errace].[2]

105 tablets (99 Neo-Assyrian and 6 Neo-Babylonian) were first published between 1955 and 1974 in the journal Iraq (vols. 17–36), and the remaining 139 were published in 2001 in Saggs' book The Nimrud Letters, 1952.[2]

Bibliography

  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1955). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part I". Iraq. 17 (1): 21–56. doi:10.2307/4241715. JSTOR 4241715.
  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1955). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part II". Iraq. 17 (2): 126–160. doi:10.2307/4241723. JSTOR 4241723.
  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1956). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part III". Iraq. 18 (1): 40–56. doi:10.2307/4199596. JSTOR 4199596.
  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1963). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part VI". Iraq. 25 (1): 70–80. doi:10.2307/4199732. JSTOR 4199732.
  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1959). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part V". Iraq. 21 (2): 158–179. doi:10.2307/4199658. JSTOR 4199658.
  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1958). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part IV". Iraq. 20 (2): 182–212. doi:10.2307/4199640. JSTOR 4199640.
  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1965). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part VII". Iraq. 27 (1): 17–32. doi:10.2307/4199777. JSTOR 4199777.
  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1966). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part VIII". Iraq. 28 (2): 177–191. doi:10.2307/4199811. JSTOR 4199811.
  • Saggs, H. W. F. (1974). "The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part IX". Iraq. 36 (1/2): 199–221. doi:10.2307/4199989. JSTOR 4199989.
  • Iraq, British School of Archaeology in (2001). The Nimrud Letters, 1952. British School of Archaeology in Iraq. ISBN 978-0-903472-20-3.

References

  1. ^ Millard, Alan (2005). "Professor H. W. F. Saggs, BD, MTh, MA, PhD, FSA (1920-2005)". IRAQ. 67 (2): vi. doi:10.1017/S0021088900001285. S2CID 178152180.
  2. ^ a b c Novotny, Jamie (2014). "[Rezension von] HWF Saggs, The Nimrud Letters, 1952 (Cuneiform Texts From Nimrud 5)" (PDF). Bibliotheca Orientalis. 71 (1–2): 191–195.