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These two almost similar letter tablets were excavated at the city of Borsippa and were mailed from Nineveh. The Assyrian king Ashurbanipal ordered his emplyees to find local copies of particular compositions, which the royal library at Nineveh lacks. The king's scribes could then write new copies in the Assyrian script.
Neo-Assyrian period, 7th century BCE. From Borsippa (modern-day Birs Nimrud, Babel Governorate, Iraq), Mesopotamia. (The British Museum, London).
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