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Contexts

The GKAB project works on four scholarly libraries of the first millennium B.C.

Two are from the Assyrian area, during Neo-Assyrian times:

• the library of Ezida, the temple of Nabu in Nimrud, ancient Kalhu;
• the library of Sultantepe, ancient Huzirina.

The two others were unearthed in Babylonia at Uruk and date from the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods:

• One was found in a private house which was inhabited by āšipus, or exorcists, called here "āšipus' house(s)". There were, actually, two different libraries in this building, dating to the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods respectively;
• The other library was in the Rēš temple and belonged to the kalûs or lamentation-priests of the shrine.

Tablets illicitly excavated from Seleucid Uruk are also related to these libraries.