Nuzi (Hurrian Nuzi/Nuzu; Akkadian Gasur) at modern Yorghan Tepe (also Yorgan Tepa and Jorgan Tepe), Iraq was an ancient Mesopotamian city 12 kilometers southwest of the city of Arrapha (modern Kirkuk) and 70 kilometers southwest of Sātu Qala, located near the Tigris river.

Nuzi is the het ship between Serial Designation N and Uzi Doorman from the Murder Drones fandom. When N and Uzi met, N almost killed her as he was only created to kill Worker Drones like her. When Uzi shot him with her railgun, he could not …

The Nuzi texts are ancient documents found during an excavation of Nuzi, an ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Kirkuk Governorate of Iraq, located near the Tigris river. They were found on cuneiform tablets written in the Akkadian language . [ 1 ]

Jun 17, 2024 · Amid Nuzi’s remains, archaeologists unearthed thousands of clay tablets that included a trove of ancient legal documents. These inscribed tablets were discovered within private residences, attributed to notable inhabitants with Hurrian names like Tehiptilla, Shurkitilla, and Shilwateshub.

NUZI, ancient city in N.E. Iraq at the present site of Yorghan Tepe, about 10 miles (16 km.) S.W. of Arrapha, modern Kirkuk, near the foothills of southern Kurdistan. Excavations were begun at Nuzi in 1925 by E. Chiera and were continued through 1931 under the joint auspices of the American School of Oriental Research, Harvard University, and ...

Nov 27, 2023 · Nuzi was a city in the kingdom of Arrapha, vassal to the larger kingdom of Mitanni, a confederation of Hurrian states in Upper Mesopotamia. Although the city of Nuzi did not have a king, a mayor is mentioned who answered to the king of Arrapha.

Feb 27, 2006 · Nuzi was a Hurrian administrative center not far from the Hurrian capital at Kirkuk in northern Iraq. The Hurrians are equivalent to the Horites in the Old Testament, also called Hivites and Jebusites. Excavations were carried out at …

NUZI nōō’ zĭ. A town occupied by Hurrians in the second millennium b.c. The name is always written in cuneiform as Nu-zi, but has not yet been found in any case other than the genitive. A. Location and importance. The remains of Nuzi were buried in the mound of Yorghan Tepe, about nine m. W of the modern town of Kirkut in northeastern ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Nuzi: report on the excavations at Yorgan Tepa near Kirkuk, Iraq, conducted by Harvard University in conjunction with the American Schools of Oriental Research and the University Museum of Philadelphia, 1927-1931. v.2: plates and plans

Jan 11, 2012 · The five chapters of the book include 96 texts that cover the topics of warfare, political corruption, land disputes, and ‘the decline and fall of a Nuzi family’, as well as the hard-to-define ilku. As with all volumes in the SBL Writings from the Ancient World series, each text is presented in transliteration and translation, and each is ...