Add to ORKGOver the last century, scholars have intensively discussed the provenance of the Elamite Nineveh Letters. According to the inventory numbers of the British Museum, this archive of twenty-three late Elamite cuneiform tablets was allegedly excavated between 1850-1891 in the Neo-Assyrian capital Nineveh (Iraq). As these letters are the only Elamite tablets in the so-called Library of Assurbanipal, their Nineveh provenance was already questioned as early as the late 19th century (Sayce 1885: 756). Eager to solve this archival mystery, some scholars suggested that the letters ended up in the (K)uyunjik-collection by a 19th century mix-up of transport cases in either Bagdad before shipment to London or during the registration in the British Museu...