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The Ashurbanipal Library Project. The Library that once belonged to Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-c. 630 BC), is one of most remarkable and fascinating archaeological discoveries ever made.
- About the project
About the project. The Ashurbanipal Library Project...
- Archaeology of the Library
The Library was discovered at several sites in Nineveh over...
- ASBP Corpus
Archival/administration/administrative record: 1902-05-10,...
- Chronological overview
Fragments of tablets with annals of Sennacherib (705-681BC),...
- What is the Library
Its contents remain a gold mine for scholars in other fields...
- Bibliography
"The British Museum's Ashurbanipal Library Project", Iraq...
- Excavations Begin
Then Sir Stratford Canning, British ambassador in...
- History of The Project
The Ashurbanipal Library Project was set up in 2002 as a...
- A Royal Collection
Ashurbanipal's collection was the largest, broadest and most...
- About the project
This project, Reading the Library of Ashurbanipal: a multi-sectional analysis of Assyriology's foundational corpus, will look at the Library as a whole. It will analyse the Library based on detailed, systematic and thorough surveys of the textual and archaeological evidence.
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The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BCE, including texts in various languages.
Jan 23, 2023 · The Library of Ashurbanipal (7th century BCE) is the oldest known systematically organized library in the world, established in Nineveh by the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (r. 668-627 BCE) to preserve the history and culture of Mesopotamia. Over 30,000 texts were discovered at Nineveh in the mid-19th century, but the original collection is ...
The British Museum’s Ashurbanipal Library Project is working to make the entire Library available in digital form. A digital catalogue is now publicly available; it will be updated and expanded regularly, keeping pace with the intensive research that continues to be undertaken on its texts.
