The Excavations at Nimrud (Kalḫu), 1955

M. E. L. Mallowan

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The Excavations at Nimrud (Kalḫu), 1955

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M. E. L. Mallowan

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The sixth Expedition to Nimrud sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq took the field on March 3rd, 1955, and concluded its work on May 5th. Once again we are indebted to several Institutions and many persons for their help. Generous financial aid was received from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the Griffith Institute; the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; the University of Cambridge; The Iraq Petroleum Company which through the good offices of Mr. M. S. Maidand lent us machinery and invaluable technical aid; much personal service was given to us through the kindness of officers in the Company. The Expedition is again deeply grateful to H.E. Dr. Naji al Aṣil, the Director General of the Iraq Antiquities Department and to all members of his staff for their goodwill and skilled advice. To H.E. Rashid Nejib, the Mutasarrif of Mosul, and to many friends in that town, as well as to the British Vice-Consul and to the British Institute we are also deeply indebted.

In the course of the season we had the honour of receiving His Excellency the British Ambassador and Lady Wright and many other distinguished guests. More than a thousand visitors watched the progress of the excavations at various times.

Type: Research Article
Information: IRAQ , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , Spring 1956 , pp. 1 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/4199594 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1956

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^{page 1 note 1} See also accounts of this Expedition in Illustrated London News, January 21, 28, 1956, with photographs of the principal discoveries.

^{page 2 note 1} Jones, Felix, Notes on the Topography of Nineveh, and the other cities of Assyria (Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government XLIII, 1857), 473Google Scholar.

^{page 3 note 1} Iraq XVI, Pt. 1, p. 99Google Scholar; XVII, Pt. I, pp. 3–20.

^{page 3 note 2} An account of this pottery will be published in a subsequent article by Miss Olga Tufhell.

^{page 5 note 1} Layard, , Ninevh and its Remains II, 39 and plan 5Google Scholar.

^{page 5 note 2} Gadd, C J., The Stones of Assyria, 112 fGoogle Scholar.

^{page 5 note 3} Smith, George, Assyrian Discoveries, 77 fGoogle Scholar.

^{page 6 note 1} See p. 10 below.

^{page 6 note 2} Iraq XIV, Pt. I, p. 30Google Scholar. On the Aššur-naṣir-pal stela Adad and Shala; Ea and Damkina.

^{page 6 note 3} I.L.N. January 21, 1956. Fig. 3 for the photograph.

^{page 7 note 1} Gadd, C. J., The Stones of Assynia, 150, 229Google Scholar, LAR. I, 264Google Scholar.

^{page 7 note 2} I.L.N., January 21, 1956, fig. 13.

^{page 8 note 1} Iraq, XIII, Pt. 1, p. 21Google Scholar, article by D. J. Wiseman, who will also publish this new fragment.

^{page 8 note 2} I am indebted to Professor C. J. Gadd for informing me about this inscribed object and the above-mentioned syllabary.

^{page 9 note 1} See also C.A.H. III, 19Google Scholar, for a discussion of this subject.

^{page 9 note 2} Iraq, XIV, Pt. 1, p. 31Google Scholar, for mention of Nabu on the Aššur-naṣt-pal stela.

^{page 11 note 1} e.g., ND 4212, ND 4249.

^{page 12 note 1} e.g., The chamber known as ZT. 4 where tablet boxes and the scribal benches were found, of Iraq, XV, Pt. 1, p. 33, Pl. IV and Fig. 3Google Scholar.

^{page 13 note 1} Two years earlier than the date given in C.A.H. III, 87Google Scholar.

^{page 14 note 2} See ILN, January 28, 1956, for drawings and photographs of these remarkable panels which will be published in a subsequent article.

^{page 14 note 1} A. Godard, Le Trésor dt Ziwiye, fig. 5.

^{page 15 note 1} Iraq XVI, Pt. 1,p. 75Google Scholar.

^{page 15 note 2} Iraq, XVI, 132Google Scholar, but see the discussion in Wiseman, D. J., Chronicles of Chaldatan Kings, pp. 13–14Google Scholar with reference to Hdt. 1, 102, and the suggestion that this might have occurred as early as 630 B.C.

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^{page 17 note 2} Iraq, XVI, Pt. 1, p. 113Google Scholar.

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^{page 18 note 2} Iraq, XIV, Pt. 1, pp. 45 fGoogle Scholar. and Plates, XII–XVIII, Iraq, XIII, Pt. 1, Plates I–IX.

^{page 19 note 1} Nabu-bel-uṣur in 672 B.C. and šarru-ludâri in 664 B.C.

^{page 20 note 1} Iraq, XVI, Pt. I, p. 85 fGoogle Scholar.

^{page 20 note 2} Iraq, XIV, Pt. I, p. 61 fGoogle Scholar.

^{page 20 note 3} Iraq, XII, Pt. 2, p. 167Google Scholar. It is possible that the squatter's level there noted may have belonged to the same period.

^{page 21 note 1} Smith, George, Assyrian Discoveries, 80Google Scholar.

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