However, the manuscript had an earlier origin, since a "young physician" asu (A.ZU) sehru (TUR) from Assur copied and collated AMC from an already broken tablet (YBC 7123, Beckman and Foster 1988: 11, 9a rev.
Bunu Almanlarin 1903-1914 yillarinda Asur Devleti'nin merkezi olan Assur (Qal'at Sarkat) da yaptiklari kazilarda ortaya cikan tabletlerden ogrenmekteyiz.
The heroine of Rossini's 1823 opera seria is a rather monstrous woman, who, with the help of her admirer, Assur, murders her husband, grabs the throne of Babylon for herself and then--albeit unwittingly--falls in love with her own son, Arsace.
Isana, attested as a provincial capital through the Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods, was probably located not very far from Assur (Radner [2006: 46], who locates it around modern Senn on the west bank of the Tigris, close to its juncture with the Upper Zab).