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Tell Shemshāra (ancient Šušarra) (also Tell Shimshara, Tall Šimšārah, and Tall Šamšāra) is an archaeological site located on the right bank of Little

Shemshara archives, Volume 23. Copenhagen, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2001. ISBN 8778762456 Jörgen Laessøe, The Shemshāra Tablets.

excavated in the 1990s. The cuneiform tablets bear a colophon which indicates they are part of a palace archive. Three tablets and two prisms, one administrative

excavation of Tell Shemshara in 1957. The excavations uncovered an Old Assyrian palace complex and substantial cache of cuneiform tablets, which occupied

has now lost favor. One of the few textual references was found at Tell Shemshara. "... Another matter: the lands of Šinamum and Tušḫum are on a par with

as an early-second millennium BCE palace with a small archive of clay tablets. The inhabitants of some 50 villages in the flooded area, around 1,000–1

excavated during this operation: ed-Dem, Kamarian, Qarashina and Tell Shemshara. Bazmusian is a tell, or settlement mound, with a circumference of 1,500

installed garrisons in the conquered towns. The archive of clay tablets found at Tell Shemshara (ancient Shusharra) shows that the local governor switched

references to Šināmum was found in an Old Babylonian period text at Tell Shemshara. "... Another matter: the lands of Šinamum and Tušḫum are on a par with

Evidence". Cuneiform Digital Library Journal. Eidem, Jesper (2001). The Shemshāra Archives 1: The Letters. Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. p. 24. ISBN 9788778762450