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Ashurbanipal Library Project

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AT-0645

Nineveh

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British Museum institutional research source for the cuneiform collections excavated at Nineveh, their reconstruction, and the limits of treating them as one modern-style library.

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Assyria

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British Museum institutional project for the tablets conventionally grouped as Ashurbanipal's library and the scholarly collections at Nineveh.

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The cuneiform collections excavated at Nineveh and conventionally grouped as Ashurbanipal's library preserve major Mesopotamian literary and scholarly traditions.

The material is physically preserved, cataloged, translated, and studied. The caution is that “library” can mislead readers into imagining a modern public institution.
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Important tablet witnesses to the Epic of Gilgamesh were excavated from the Nineveh collections conventionally grouped as Ashurbanipal's library.

Answer / theory: Yes. Major Gilgamesh tablet material was found in Ashurbanipal's library. Evidence level: Strong Evidence.
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Important Gilgamesh tablet witnesses were found among the Nineveh collections conventionally grouped as Ashurbanipal's library.

Answer / theory: Important copies of Gilgamesh were found in Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh. What supports it: Cuneiform tablets from the library. What is weak or disputed: Assyria preserved older texts; it did not originate all of them. Evidence level: Strong Evidence.
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