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 testifying to libraries in many places (Akkad, Assur, Babylon, Kutha and Nippur at least) and many times. It testifies also to non-business literature in these libraries back at least to Sargon I, the earliest dated ruler.

The library itself was not founded by Ashurbanapal but by predecessors and many of the tablets belong to previous reigns, but the great and systematic enrichment by Ashurbanapal rightly makes it bear his name.