The Nuzi dialect of Akkadian is known from several thousand cuneiform tablets discovered in the ruins of ancient Nuzi, about 10 miles southwest of modern Kirkuk, Iraq. These documents, dating from the middle of the second millennium B. C., were unearthed in the course of several campaigns sponsored by the American School of Oriental Research in Baghdad, the Semitic Museum of Harvard University, and the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Following the publication of a small number of these records which had found their way to the British Museum and the Louvre, Dr. Edward Chiera began systematic excavations at Nuzi in the spring of 1925; other campaigns were conducted from 1927 to 1931, and were directed successively by Chiera, Pfeiffer, and Starr.