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A group of texts documenting the economic and social life of communities of deported Judeans who were settled in southern Babylonia, probably between Nippur and Uruk, came to light in the 1990s on the antiquities' market (Peirce and Wunsch 2014). This group contains a few Neo‐Babylonian texts (dating as far back as the reign of Nebuchadnezzar), but the bulk of the material dates to the reigns of Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius I. With the accession of Xerxes, the number of tablets decreases rapidly, but a few texts do postdate 484 BCE. The archive documents the management of the fields assigned to the deportees, their tax and service obligations vis‐à‐vis the royal administration, and aspects of the private business of some of the more affluent of these Judean families.

A small Late Achaemenid archive (seven tablets dating to the late fifth and the early fourth centuries BCE) documents the affairs of a family of landholding priests living in the village or small city of Šāṭir between Uruk and Nippur (Jursa 2005b: pp. 150–151).