We introduce a computational method of dating for an archive in ancient Mesopotamia. We use the name index Nuzi Personal Names (NPN) published in 1943. We made an electronic version of NPN and added the kinships of the two powerful families to NPN to reflect the Nuzi studies after 1943. Nuzi is a town from the 15th - 14th century B.C.E.for a period of some five generations in Arrapha. The cuneiform tablets listed in NPN are for contracts on land transactions, marriage, loans, slavery, etc. In NPN, the kinships and cuneiform tablets (contracts, documents, texts) involved are listed for each person. We reconstruct family trees from the added NPN to formulate the least squares problem with the constraints: a person's father is at least 22.5 years older than the person, contractors were living at the time of the contract, etc. Our results agree with the Assyriological results of M. P. Maidman on the seniority among siblings of a powerful family. Our method could be applied to the other clay tablet archives once we have the name index in the format of NPN.

翻译：我们提出一种针对古代美索不达米亚文书的计算年代定年方法。采用1943年出版的《努兹人名索引》（Nuzi Personal Names, NPN），制作其电子版本，并根据1943年后的努兹研究进展，将两大显赫家族的亲缘关系增补至NPN中。努兹是公元前15至14世纪（约相当于阿尔哈发地区五代人时期）的一座城镇。NPN收录的楔形文字泥板涉及土地交易、婚约、借贷、奴隶买卖等契约。该索引为每个个体列明其亲缘关系及关联的楔形文书（契约、文件、文本）。我们基于增补后的NPN重构家谱，建立带约束条件的最小二乘问题：人物父亲须年长其至少22.5岁，缔约方在契约签署时须在世等。研究结果与亚述学家M.P.梅德曼关于某强盛家族内部兄弟长幼顺序的结论相吻合。该方法可推广至其他采用NPN格式人名索引的泥板文书档案。