Other areas of Nineveh

Review Palace, Nebi Yunus

The archives from the ekal masharti ("Review Palace") contained a mix of administrative, legal and omen texts and others.

• 80-7-19, 312-317
• A varied group of fragments, including fragments of administrative, legal, royal and scholarly texts were found during the Iraqi 1954 excavations (published by Macginnis (1992)).

Area SH

Mainly prism and cylinder fragments. It has been suggested that this area may have been a scriptorium. Also stone and clay hieroglyphic Hittite tablets seem to have come from here. The site has been understood as the "house of Ashur-shum-ushabshi", son of Sennacherib. See further Thompson and Hutchinson (1929) pp. 83-84, Hawkins (2000) pp. 566-567.

House of Ninurta-sharra-usur

Legal archives dating 669-615 found in jar. Ninurta-sharra-usur was probably a son of Ashurbanipal. Published in TIM 11 4-48

Area 59 archive

Two contracts, dated c. 636, 623. Published in TIM 11 3, 6-11

Jonathan Taylor

Jonathan Taylor, 'Other areas of Nineveh', Ashurbanipal Library Project, The Ashurbanipal Library Project, Department of the Middle East, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, 2022 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/asbp/areasofnineveh/otherareas/]