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How many tablets and tablet fragments from Ashurbanipalâs library have survived?
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Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal depicted in a lion hunt in an Assyrian relief from his northern palace in Nineveh; now in the British Museum.
Approximately 20,720 Assyrian tablets and fragments from the library of Ashurbanipal have been preserved and are currently held in the British Museum.1