cuth Summary and Overview
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cuth in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
CUTH , AND CU'THAH. 2 Kgs 17:24, 1 Kgs 20:30. A city of Assyria, 15 miles north-east of Babylon, where the name Cutha is inscribed upon bricks of Nebuchadnezzar's age. At Cutha was the great university from whence the originals of the tablets giving an Assyrian account of the Creation were brought by Assurbanipal. II. Rassam, a distinguished Assyrian scholar, in 1879 attempted to discover the site of the royal record-office and to re-explore these ruins of Cutha.