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Sumerians, Gutians and Hurrians at Ashur? A re-examination of Ishtar temples G and F

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

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If we conduct today a survey of early scientific studies on the archaeology of the Near East, most of them seem to be only of historic interest. Only a few of the results published at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century remain valid. Nevertheless the first three decades of the twentieth century were a very important period for setting the agenda in methods and aims of Near Eastern archaeology. Moreover, many of these early theories and propositions still have an effect on current research, even when in the present state of knowledge they are out of date or no longer of relevance.

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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2003

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