Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrap a that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administrative tablets, all belonging to a period of some five generations (ca.
1475 1350 B.
) and almost all from known archaeological contexts.
The tablets were excavated from the government administrative complexes, from houses in all the urban neighborhoods, from each of the suburban villas, and eve.