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Two almost similar letter tablets relaying the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal's orders to his employees to find local copies of particular compositions, which the royal library at Nineveh lacked. Sent from Nineveh and found at the city of Borsippa, modern-day Birs Nimrud, Babel Governorate, Iraq. Neo-Assyrian Empire, 7th century BCE.
The British Museum, London.
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