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Foreign nationals in Calah (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Alphabetic script
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.02 Writing systems and writing media
11.02.02 Alphabetic script
Deportations
08 Administrative systems
08.03 Provincial administration
08.03.05 Administrative measures
08.03.05.01 Deportations
Libraries and archives
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.03 Libraries and archives
Use of Aramaic and Aramaic script in imperial administration
12 Assyrian Identity
12.01 The shaping of Assyrian identity in imperial times
12.01.01 Aramaization of Assyria
12.01.01.06 Use of Aramaic and Aramaic script in imperial administration

Keywords
Aramaic
deportations
scripts

Period
8th century BCE
7th century BCE
Neo-Assyrian Empire

Channel
Neo-Assyrian texts

Summary
The Aramaic script was used for the Akkadian language.

Text
Further evidence of the presence of foreign nationals (deportees, or their children) in Calah is to be found in the Nimrud Wine Lists, in the Governor’s Palace Archive and in Aramaic epigraphs on tablets written in Akkadian.

Bibliography

Oded 1979, 61

Oded, Bustenay. Mass Deportations and Deportees in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Wiesbaden: Reichert 1979.

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Cf. Deportations to Aššur by Neo-Assyrian kings (1)

George V. Yana (Bebla)

URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0001553.php

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