Rouault Olivier. Terqa Final Reports No. 1: L'Archive de Puzurum

Undena Publications, 1984. — 132 p. — (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 16).The first volume of the Terqa Final Reports is the complete publication of
an important archive of tablets of the Khana period. The texts were excavated
in the third and fourth seasons, from a room of a private house which had been
burned in antiquity. The archive consists of twelve tablets, many with clay
envelopes, including a rare example of a double envelope. A large number of
fragments were also found, all of which are published here.
Ten of the tablets are legal contracts, and the designation of a man by the
name of Puzurum as buyer in seven of these has led to his identification as
owner of the archive. Two other texts included in the publication, a mathematical
text and a dedicatory stone pendant, were not from the archive itself.
Overall, the archive presents a significant picture of some legal and economic
aspects of the second quarter of the second millennium B.C., as they applied to
individual transactions, and is also important in shedding new light on the chronology
of the Khana period. Most of the tablets are dated to king Yadih-Abu,
for whom we otherwise have a synchronism with Samsu-Iluna.