A Neo-Assyrian Slave Sale Contract of 725 BC from the Peshdar Plain and the Location of the Palace Herald’s Province

Radner, Karen (1. December 2015): A Neo-Assyrian Slave Sale Contract of 725 BC from the Peshdar Plain and the Location of the Palace Herald’s Province. In: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, Vol. 105, No. 2: pp. 192-197

Abstract

This paper presents a first edition of a new clay tablet in Neo-Assyrian language and cuneiform script. The fragmentary text was found in 2013 at the site of Qalat-i Dinka in the Peshdar Plain, Sulaymaniyah Province, Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq. It documents the sale of a slave woman in the year 725 BC, when the area was part of the Assyrian Empire and quite possible of the Province of the Palace Herald.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: Assyria; clay tablet; sale contract; historical geography; Zagros Mountains
• Faculties: History and Art History
• Subjects: 400 Language > 490 Other languages; 900 History and geography > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499); 900 History and geography > 950 History of Asia
• ISSN: 1613-1150
• Language: English