Moudhy Al-Rashid Amid the ruins of Nippur is a house, inspiringly named “House F”, made up of a small courtyard with four rooms. The crumbled remains of benches appear in one room and in the courtyard, where there are also three recessed boxes constructed from mud brick. In these boxes were fragments of tablets andContinue reading ““Schoolboy, where have you been going so long?”: The Old Babylonian Student and School”
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“I am dying of a broken heart”
Moudhy Al-Rashid The Neo-Assyrian physician Nabû-tabni-uṣurseems once upon a time for reasons we may never know to have fallen out of favour with the court. Unlike his colleagues, he no longer received compensation for his work. Payments promised by the court never materialised. Concern for his financial well-being and his position in the court snowballedContinue reading ““I am dying of a broken heart””
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