Robson, Eleanor;
(2023)
The Archive.
In: Moon, Jane, (ed.)
Tell Khaiber: A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty.
(pp. 67-121).
Moonrise Press: Ludlow, UK.
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Abstract
The 145 cuneiform tablets from Tell Khaiber are uniquely important in providing secure identification of this settlement as dating to the First Sealand Dynasty, which ruled the marshlands of southern Babylonia in the midsecond millennium BCE. They also represent the first full publication of an archaeologically contextualised find of cuneiform tablets in southern Iraq since the long hiatus in international fieldwork in the area, c.1990–2012. First in this chapter, I describe the find context of the tablets, their typology, and relationship to illicitly excavated tablets of the Sealand period from the Schøyen Collection published by Dalley and studied more recently by Boivin.35 I then consider the historical, ethical, and methodological implications of the find. Finally, after an overview catalogue of the tablets, more detailed descriptions are grouped by tablet group, enabling micro-geographical study of the archive’s remains.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | The Archive |
| ISBN-13: | 9781910169049 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.moonrisepress.co.uk/?p=413 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172118 |
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