Skip to content
Licensed Unlicensed Requires Authentication Published by De Gruyter November 27, 2023

Nabû at the Frontiers of the Assyrian Empire: An Inscribed Bronze Necklet from Yasin Tepe, Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Shin’ichi Nishiyama EMAIL logo and Shigeo Yamada EMAIL logo

Abstract

This paper presents an inscribed bronze necklet discovered at Yasin Tepe, one of the largest tell-type sites in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The necklet was found on the floor of a large building complex of the Neo-Assyrian period that probably belonged to an elite family living at the site. The two-line inscription dates to around the eighth to seventh centuries BCE, and mentions the dedication of a son by his father to the god Nabû, implying the diffusion of his worship to the frontier of the Assyrian empire.[*]

Published Online: 2023-11-27
Published in Print: 2023-12-15

© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Downloaded on 27.4.2024 from https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/za-2023-0015/html
Scroll to top button