Site: Nuzi (NE Mesopotamia)
Language: Hurrian written in cuneiform
Kingdom: Mittani
Date: c. 1500-1250 BC

Nuzi Tablets contain customs found in the biblical text:

A barren wife giving a servant to her husband (Hagar)
A bride chosen for the son by the father (Rebekah)
A dowry paid to the father-in-law (Jacob)
Work done to pay a dowry (Jacob)
The unchanging oral will of a father (Isaac)
A father giving his daughter a slave-girl (Leah, Rachel)
The death sentence for stealing cult gods (Jacob)


The Nuzi Tablets are housed at the Semitic Museum at Harvard.