The Sultantepe Tablets

The unbaked clay tablets found by Mr. Seton Lloyd and Bay Nuri Gökçe at Sultantepe were transported to the Archaeological Museum at Ankara in June, 1951. By a happy coincidence I arrived in Ankara shortly afterwards and was able to spend a period of about five weeks in examining the collection. At the beginning of my stay in Ankara the tablets were drying out well, and it was possible to brush off the accumulations of earth from many of them without damage. Others, however, resisted this superficial treatment and will have to be baked before an epigraphist can begin to work on them. The questions which were uppermost in our minds at Ankara were the ancient name of the site, the date of the finds, and the general nature of the hoard of tablets found in a large pile in sounding F, since this in its turn would throw light on the nature of the building that contained them. It was obvious to me at first sight that these tablets closely resembled in script and appearance those from the library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh and that the majority of them contained religious or lexicographical texts. But since they were unbaked, it did not seem very probable that they had formed part of a royal library. My first attention was therefore directed towards the colophons, or scribal notes to be found at the end of many of the texts, since these were likely to contain the most direct clue to the nature and purpose of the collection and might also mention the date and place of writing

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