This text is the formal record of a treaty made by Esarhaddon, King of Assyria, in the year 672 B.C.E., and enforced by oath on nine vassal princes from bordering frontier states in Iran. It was found in I95 5 during the sixth expedition to Nimrud under the auspices of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq in dramatic circumstances. The place of discovery was a hall which appears to have been the king's throne-room. This may have been the room referred to in certain religious texts as " the chamber of the palace "' in which the statue of the god Nabu came to rest for some days before passing out of his sanctuary to his country temple during the spring festival.