Nimrud Letters Explained

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

Notes and References

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