Writings of cuneiform foundations in Mesopotamia (Master Thesis)

Abstract

The kings of ancient Iraq, when building or reconstructing a temple or any major important building, used to put in the foundations of that building various forms of materials and they wrote on some of those materials votive writings recording the dedication of something presented to God or done for the sake of God, and this tradition has been followed since the time of the Sumerians The Akkadians then took it from them by the Babylonian and Assyrian kings, who developed and preserved it, but the basic idea of ​​creating such writings remained the same, which is to determine the identity of the king and the gift or religious or military work and the occasion of consecration, and we have used in this research the term Al-Asas writings to denote this type Writings. The thesis came in three chapters and two appendices, which dealt with introducing the foundations writings and their importance in knowing an aspect of the history and civilization of Mesopotamia, as well as the forms of the foundations writings, the materials from which they were made and their contents. The foundations writings with cuneiform inscriptions for a number of them.