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1 1 The interpretation of the events of 484 BCE and the “end‐of‐archives” phenomenon have been widely discussed (bibliographical references in Henkelman et al. 2011: pp. 452–453), but the material basis of the evidence as presented by the key studies of Waerzeggers 2003/2004 (with Oelsner 2007) and Kessler 2004 remains firm. Some of the recent statements on the subject underrate the incisiveness of the institutional changes that occurred in or after 484 BCE. See now Waerzeggers and Seire 2018.

2 2 In the sense that the bulk of the tablets dates to the Early Achaemenid period. There are a few other groups that include Early Achaemenid tablets, but the majority of the texts of these archives are Neo‐Babylonian.

3 3 Also the tablets found by the Austrian expedition to Borsippa remain unpublished.

4 4 A temple northeast of Eanna was destroyed by fire and not restored at this time (a text dated to the reign of Darius gives a terminus post quem for the destruction): Kose (1998: p. 10) and Lenzen (1958: p. 15 note 24).

5 5 On the assumption that the library texts are contemporaneous with the Sîn‐ilī archive that was found with it. They might conceivably also belong with the small group of Late Achaemenid tablets excavated in the temple (Pedersén 2005: p. 231): only publication and epigraphic study can tell.