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Achaemenid” for Persian period texts up to the second year of Xerxes [even though “Teispid and early Achaemenid” would be more precise], and “Late Achaemenid” for all later tablets of the Persian period.)

      Sippar

      Babylon

      For Babylon, we have to distinguish between tablets coming from illicit excavations, now housed overwhelmingly in the British Museum (and discussed first), and the finds of the German excavations, which are now in Berlin and Istanbul, at least to the extent that they have survived the vicissitudes of World War I and its aftermath (Jursa 2005b: pp. 60–76; Pedersén 2005).

      In the unexcavated material, the Early Achaemenid period is represented by a number of private archives that all break off in the second year of Xerxes. The most important is the Egibi archive, which belonged to a family of businessmen who had aligned themselves during the early Persian period with the city governor of Babylon and his establishment (Abraham 2004; Waerzeggers 2003/2004: p. 159). Some 700 tablets of the archive date to the Persian period. The archive was deposited in several clay jars after the removal of title deeds and other texts of relevance for the last archive holders. Other family archives falling in this “end‐of‐archives” pattern include the Ea‐eppēš‐ilī A (60 tablets; priests, Baker 2008: p. 107; see also below), Nappāentityu (291 tablets; priests), and Šangû‐Ninurta (90 tablets; landowners) archives. Other archives from Babylon that include Early Persian period texts but end earlier than the second year of Xerxes are either small (such as the Rabâ‐ša‐Ninurta archive; landowners) or date mostly to the Neo‐Babylonian period (such as the Sîn‐ilī archive, which, as excavations in Babylon have revealed, was deposited in the Ninurta temple of the city during the reign of Darius, see below).

      Borsippa