Kemune (thought to be the ancient city of Zakhiku)[1] is an archaeological site discovered during a low water level in the reservoir of the Mosul Dam in the Nineveh Governorate, part of the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 2013.

[5] In 2021 extremely low water levels in the reservoir, due to a severe drought, again exposed the site and, in January and February 2022 the Kurdistan Archaeology Organization and University of Tübingen conducted additional emergency rescue excavations.

The tablets date from the early Middle Assyrian period, just after the destruction of the city by an earthquake.

[6] The site held a palace constructed on the banks of the Tigris River during the days of the Mitanni Empire rule over Assyria.

Ten cuneiform clay tablets belonged to Mittani people and were translated by Betina Faist of Heidelberg University.