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Iraq Government Excavations At ‘Aqar Qūf Second Interim Report 1943-1944

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Taha Baqir
Taha Baqir*
Affiliation:
Curator of the Iraq Museum
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In a previous report we summarized the results of excavations undertaken by the Directorate-General of Antiquities at the site known as ‘Aqar Qūf during a short preliminary season in 1942 and again from February to March in 1943. During the whole of this time work was restricted to the temple area in the vicinity of the ruined ziggurrat. Excavating was resumed at the beginning of October 1943, and the third season lasted until February 10th, 1944. The field staff remained almost unchanged from the previous season and consisted of Taha Baqir, M.A., Curator of the Iraq Museum, as field-director, Mohammed Ali Mustafa, architect, Ata Sabri, registrar, and Izeddin Sanduq, assistant surveyor. Most of the excellent photographs were taken by the Department's photographer, Antran Ivan. As before, excavations were conducted under the guidance of Mr. Seton Lloyd, F.S.A., Technical Adviser to the Directorate-General.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 1945 , Issue S1: Iraq Government Excavations at ‘Aqar Qūf Second Interim Report 1943-1944 , 1945 , pp. 1 - 43
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1945

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References

page 1 note 1 Iraq, Supplement 1944.

page 6 note 1 An explanation of this ‘platform’ was afforded during the season 1944–5 by the discovery of similar constructions better preserved in other parts of the building. These were earth ramps, evidently leading to the roof, which passed and returned on either side of a long central pier of masonry. In the case under discussion the ramp would start from the doorway to Room 4, turn across the north-east end of the so-called platform, and return to the other side. The narrowness of the passage would be explained by the fact, which we now know, that the continuation of the ramp above was carried on wooden beams.

page 8 note 1 There is a faint and doubtful sign after DUR which looks like ri or dingir.

page 8 note 2 Illustrated London News, 19 August 1944.

page 11 note 1 Smith, S., Alalakh and Chronology, p. 5Google ScholarPubMed.

page 11 note 2 Ibid., p. 47.

page 12 note 1 See additional note on p. 15.

page 14 note 1 Cambridge Ancient History 1, p. 567Google Scholar. [The use of glass in Iraq was certainly much earlier than this. Apart fiom the archaeological evidence, the curious tablet published in Iraq, III, 87Google Scholar, proves that glass was being manufactured with professional skill in the reign of Gulkišar, 16th cent, B.C.]