The Nimrud Wine Lists

Anonymous / tradition (palace administrators at Kalhu) · c. 8th century BC (Neo-Assyrian administrative archive from the palace at Kalhu) · Kalhu (Iraq) · administrative

Ration lists recording wine allocations to hundreds of named palace staff, from queens and eunuchs down to weavers and grooms, argue that the daily workings of an Assyrian royal household are recoverable in more granular, human detail from account tablets than from any royal inscription.