Abstract
It mightseem paradoxical to examine in the same session a music conductor (Warad-ilišu) and a diviner (Asqudum) : but the fact is that these characters, with very different skills, enjoyed the confidence of the king, who gave them missions far removed from their own field of activity. Our interest in Asqudum increased when excavations from 1979 onwards uncoveredthe small palace in which he lived during the first part of the reign of Zimri-Lim at the " chantier A ": its architecture is well preserved, and archival texts show how the residence of such a notable was managed.
