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The Excavations at Tell al Rimah, 1967

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

David Oates
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The fourth season of excavations at Tell al Rimah, from March 3rd to June 3rd, 1967, was sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, assisted by contributions from the University Museum, Philadelphia, the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the British Academy. The staff included Mr. J. E. Reade (Assistant Director), Miss Stephanie Page (epigraphist and registrar) Mr. Christopher Dalley (surveyor and photographer) and Mr. Jonathan Hodgkin (draughtsman). We were assisted for considerable periods by Mrs. Joan Oates, who undertook conservation and the recording of a large part of the pottery, Mr. Peter Dorrell, an expert photographer who took many of the photographs published here, and Mr. David Hawkins who gave very valuable help with the cleaning and study of the tablets and drew the seals and seal impressions. Mr. Reade was in charge of the excavations at Tell Taya, on which a separate report is published in this Journal. The Representative of the Directorate General of Antiquities was Sayyid Majid Abdullah, who was always ready to help with our problems. I must express my gratitude to all my colleagues, and our joint thanks to Dr. Faisal al Wailly, Director General of Antiquities, Professor Fuad Safar, Inspector General of Excavations, and their staff for their kindness and cooperation.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1968 , pp. 115 - 138
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1968

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References

1 For reports on previous seasons see Iraq 27 (1965), 62 ff., 28 (1966), 122 ff., and 29 (1967), 70 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, referred to here as First, Second and Third Reports respectively.

2 Andrae, W., Assur, Die Gräber und G.üfte, WVDOG 65, pl. 31.Google Scholar

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6 A preliminary report on the tablets appeared in Iraq 30 (1968), 87–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar I am indebted to Miss Stephanie Page and Mr. David Hawkins for the information about their contents given in this article.

7 Cf. the room in a corresponding position in the Middle Assyrian temple at Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, believed by the excavators to be a secondary shrine, W. Andrae, Das Wiedererstandene Assur, Abb. 42.

8 I am indebted to Mr. David Hawkins for a drawing of the impression of this seal as well as of the other seals and the seal impressions found during the season. I am grateful to Miss Barbara Parker for advice on the dating of the seal; Miss Parker will publish all the seals of this season in due course.

9 Second Report, Plate XXVIII.

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11 Much, if not all, of the interior of the temple had a bitumen dado surmounted by a simple ‘cushion and target’ frieze of which traces were found at shoulder level near the north comer of the cella.

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19 Founder of Dūr-Bēl-ḫarran-bēl-uṣur, modern Tell 'Abta not far south of Tell al Rimah, who claims to have granted freedom from taxes to his new city. He was high chamberlain under Shalmaneser IV and again under Tiglath-pileser III, suggesting that he supported the latter's usurpation of the throne. LAR I, 295.Google Scholar

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27 It now appears that the provenance of TR. 4968, bearing the seal impression of Pazu-x, son of Sumuami, was incorrectly recorded in the excavation catalogue. The statement in Iraq 30 (1968), 91Google Scholar, that it affords a tentative connection between the tablets from Room II of the temple and the archive of Iltani should therefore be disregarded.

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