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Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1985–86

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

R. J. Matthews ,
J. N. Postgate  and
E. J. Luby
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The following report covers two full seasons of work at Abu Salabikh, breaking with our previous practice of writing a report for this journal after each season. As well as reducing the space absorbed by each season, this has the advantage that work which was conceived on a two-season schedule as a single programme can be presented together. There was no work at the site in 1984, and none is planned on the Early Dynastic mounds in 1987; provisionally we propose to conduct another two seasons of work there in 1988–89, followed by a break in 1990. It is hoped that during the fallow years it will be possible to keep the programme of final publications going.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 49 , 1987 , pp. 91 - 119
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1987

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References

1 See Frankfort, H., Lloyd, S. & Jacobsen, Th., The Gimil-Sin Temple and the Palace of the Rulers at Tell Asmar (OIP XLIII, Chicago 1940), Plate I, The Palace CourtyardGoogle Scholar.

2 See Zarins, in Meadow, R. H. & Uerpmann, H.-P. (eds.), Equids in the Ancient World (Wiesbaden 1986), 164 ffGoogle Scholar. for textual references to grave goods including chariots and their equid teams.

3 The east wall of Room 67 is not preserved at Level IB, and there is no direct stratigraphie link between the new cross-wall and the south wall of the courtyard; we can only say that this wall was built at approximately the same time as the other IB walls, and that Graves 223a & b suggest that the east wall of Room 67 was not in fact rebuilt but replaced by the new cross-wall.

4 See Kramer, C., Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology (New York 1979), 148 Google Scholar.

5 Iraq 44 (1982), 124 with Pl. Vd Google Scholar; Curtis, J. E. (ed.) Fifty Tears of Mesopotamian Archaeology (London 1982), 59 Google Scholar.

6 101 squares were cleared in all, 14 of these being on the Uruk Mound.

7 A proportion of this area has been excavated as well as scraped. For areas investigated up to 1983, see Iraq 46 (1984), Fig. 8Google Scholar. Note that all figures quoted here are approximate and provisional, being liable to revision after detailed study of the areas scraped and reconsideration of the settlement size in the light of new evidence for the city wall.

8 A similar assumption is made by Delougaz & Lloyd regarding the frequent lack of facing on the city walls at Khafajah and Tell Asmar ( Delougaz, , Private Houses and Graves in the Diyala Region, 24, 200 Google Scholar).

9 Similar structures were found at Khafajah, in squares 059 and Y-Z21 (Delougaz, loc. cit.).

10 Taking the southern boundary of Area A to be in 5131 and 32 (see Iraq 44 (1982), 125 Google Scholar).