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.{{cite journal |last1=Millard |first1=Alan |title=Professor H. W. F. Saggs, BD, MTh, MA, PhD, FSA (1920-2005) |journal=IRAQ |date=2005 |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=vi |doi=10.1017/S0021088900001285 |s2cid=178152180 |doi-access=free }} The letters were published by H. W. F. Saggs.{{cite journal |last1=Novotny |first1=Jamie |title=[Rezension von] HWF Saggs, The Nimrud Letters, 1952 (Cuneiform Texts From Nimrud 5) |journal=Bibliotheca Orientalis |volume=71 |issue=1–2 |year=2014 |pages=191–195 |url=https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31861/1/Jamie_Novotny_H._W._F._Saggs_The_Nimrud_Letters.pdf }}
The majority of the tablets were found in Room ZT 4, where ZT stands for Z[iggurat]T[errace].
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.
Bibliography
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part I |journal=Iraq |date=1955 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=21–56 |doi=10.2307/4241715 |jstor=4241715 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part II |journal=Iraq |date=1955 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=126–160 |doi=10.2307/4241723 |jstor=4241723 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part III |journal=Iraq |date=1956 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=40–56 |doi=10.2307/4199596 |jstor=4199596 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part VI |journal=Iraq |date=1963 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=70–80 |doi=10.2307/4199732 |jstor=4199732 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part V |journal=Iraq |date=1959 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=158–179 |doi=10.2307/4199658 |jstor=4199658 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part IV |journal=Iraq |date=1958 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=182–212 |doi=10.2307/4199640 |jstor=4199640 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part VII |journal=Iraq |date=1965 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=17–32 |doi=10.2307/4199777 |jstor=4199777 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part VIII |journal=Iraq |date=1966 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=177–191 |doi=10.2307/4199811 |jstor=4199811 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Saggs |first1=H. W. F. |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952: Part IX |journal=Iraq |date=1974 |volume=36 |issue=1/2 |pages=199–221 |doi=10.2307/4199989 |jstor=4199989 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Iraq |first1=British School of Archaeology in |title=The Nimrud Letters, 1952 |date=2001 |publisher=British School of Archaeology in Iraq |isbn=978-0-903472-20-3 }}