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A Re-Consideration of the Excavations on Tell Ingharra (East Kish), 1923–33

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

V. R. S. Moorey
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It is now over thirty years since the Oxford (Weld)—Field Museum Expedition to Mesopotamia closed its excavations, after ten seasons' work (1923–33), at Tells Ingharra and 'Uhaimir: the site of ancient Kish. Throughout these excavations Professor S. Langdon acted as director of the expedition, rarely appearing in the field, but maintaining a constant interest in the progress of excavation and publishing all epigraphic material and a number of interim reports on the archaeological results. From 1923–6 E. Mackay was director in the field, from 1926–33 L. Ch. Watelin. Mackay's transfer to India and subsequent preoccupation with work there, Watelin's premature death, in January 1934, and Langdon's primary concern with epigraphy have meant that the archaeological discoveries of this expedition were very unevenly published. This is particularly true of the work on Tell Ingharra, the primary area of excavation, where a very important archaeological sequence was revealed between 1925 and 1932. Watelin's reports on this work were published in Excavations at Kish III, 1930; the temple, and Excavations at Kish, IV, 1934: the ‘Z’ area and the ‘Y’ soundings. As he made clear, even these reports were only intended as an interim record of work still proceeding.

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IRAQ , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , Spring 1966 , pp. 18 - 51
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1966

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128 XK IV, pl. XXIX.2, 3, 4.

129 Seals from Yw: Buchanan Nos.: 112, 129, 151, 172, 215, 249, 397, 455, 510; from Ywn—Buchanan Nos. 115, 124, 132, 208, 212, 322, 367.

130 Letter—24th Feb. 1930.

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132 Letter 26th Jan. 1930; XK IV, pl. XXX, p. 46.

133 XK IV, p. 7, fig. 2.

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150 XK IV, pl. I.14.

151 AM I, pl. LII.25–26.

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155 XK IV, p. 14—Type Aa.

156 P. Delougaz, Pre-Sargonid Temples of the Diyala Region, fig. 125.

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158 Delougaz, pp. 56–7.

159 Ibid. p. 145.

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171 XK IV, pl. XII.2 (1931.165), 3 (1929.386), 4 (1929.388), 5 (1931.166).

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206 XK IV, pl. XXI.1, 3.

207 XK IV, pl. XXI.2.

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241 For a different interpretation of the stratigraphy, see Mallowan, M. E. L., Iraq, 26 (1964), pp. 69, 79CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

242 I have assembled the scanty evidence for dating palace ‘A’, as excavated, in Iraq, 26 (1964), p. 91Google Scholar.

243 Adams, , The Land Behind Baghdad, p. 45Google Scholar.

244 Tell Bandar was a Parthian fortress and the Sassanian settlement lay to the east of Ingharra—Langdon, S., Iraq, 1 (1934), pp. 113 ff., fig. 2CrossRefGoogle Scholar.