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Multi-periodSite Name: Nuzi Alternative Name: Gasur, Yorghan TepeCountry: Iraq
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Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirkuk
Latitude: 35.300000N Longitude: 44.250000E
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Ancient town in Al Ta'amim Governorate.
Located near the Tigris river, the site consists of one multiperiod tell and two small mounds. The town (Gasur) was founded during the Akkadian Empire in the late third millennium BC. In the middle second millennium Hurrians absorbed the town and renamed it Nuzi.
In the late 1920-31 the site was excavated by researchers for the Iraq Museum and the Baghdad School of the American Schools of Oriental Research and later the Harvard University and Fogg Art Museum. Hundreds of tablets and other finds have been published and more remain to be published.
To date, around 5000 tablets are known, most at the Oriental Institute, the Harvard Semitic Museum and the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Many are routine legal and business documents. The vast majority of finds are from the Hurrian period (2nd millennium BC) with the remainder dating back to the town's founding.
Sources:
- The Joint Expedition of Harvard University and the Baghdad School at Yargon Tepa Near Kirkuk, David G. Lyon, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No 30, 1928
- Edward Chiera, Joint Expedition with the Iraq Museum at Nuzi. Mixed Texts., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1934
- Nuzi; report on the excavation at Yorgan Tepa near Kirkuk, Iraq, conducted by Harvard University in conjunction with the American Schools of Oriental Research and the University museum of Philadelphia, 1927-1931, Richard F. S. Starr, Harvard University Press, 1937 and 1939.
- Joint Expedition With the Iraq Museum at Nuzi VIII: The Remaining Major Texts in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, V. 14), M. P. Maidman, David I. Owen, Gernot Wilhelm, Mathaf Al-Iraqi, University of Chicago Oriental Institute, CDL Press, 2003.
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