File:Ivory writing-board from Nimrud, Iraq, with cuneiform inscriptions. Iraq Museum.jpg

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English: The outer cover of the ivory writing-boards (6 in number). The surface is incised with 4 lines of a cuneiform text, giving the title of the astrological script which was a compilation of omens ordered by king Sargon II (r. 722-705 BC) to be set up in his palace at Khorsabad. From Well AB, North-West Palace at Nimrud, Iraq. Iraq Museum. It reads "‘Palace of Sargon, king of the world, king of Assyria. The series Enuma Anu Enlil, he had written on an ivory board and, placed in his palace at Dur-Sharrukin". Source of transliteration: IVORIES FROM THE NORTH-WEST PALACE (1845-1992) by GEORGINA HERRMANN and Stuart Laidlaw with Helena Coffey.
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