1999-02-01 09:00:00+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Nothing new: The Semitic Museum of Harvard University presents Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments From a Forgotten Past, running through April 2001. Among other things, it presents the cuneiform record of alleged misdeeds of the town's mayor:
He is also charged with sexual misconduct. Two of the mayor's underlings are supposed to have helped him arrange an illicit liaison with a young woman named Humerelli. Kushshiharbe flatly denied every charge and no documents recording the outcome of the trial have ever been found.