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A New Record of an Assyrian Earthquake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. Campbell Thompson
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During the season 1930–1 of the British Museum excavations at Nineveh, which were generously financed by Sir Charles Hyde, when Mr. R. W. Hamilton was assisting me, one of the tablets found was a letter to the king describing an earthquake and its results. Since this text is complete in itself, I am publishing it here separate from a forthcoming edition of a selection of the tablets which we found during the four seasons from 1927 onwards. It is written in Assyrian, and measures 1¼ × 2½ in., and it came from above the unburnt brick foundation of the Temple of Ishtar (6 ft. below datum level) not far from the great slab of Ashurnaṣirpal, of which the base was in situ.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1937 , pp. 186 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1937

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References

page note page 186 note 1 Cf. [iṣ]u ûrépl ši-ib-šá-te ù nab-di-e, KAR. 57, 5: Ebeling, , Altor. Bibl., I, 92 Google Scholar.

page note page 187 note 1 It occurs in II R., 64, III, 37, the long list of Assyrian proper names in order.