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I. Sassanian and Parthian Remains in Central Mesopotamia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S. Langdon
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My report on the twelfth season of the Oxford-Field Museum Expedition at Kish is based upon the weekly reports of the Field Director, M. L. Ch. Watelin, supplemented by further study of the objects after their arrival in Oxford. I have been able to make use of Dr. Milne and Professor Margoliouth's report on the coins and of Mr. Harden's study of the pottery. The drawings and letterpress for the pottery are entirely Mr. Harden's work. He had meagre assistance from scientific works on the pottery of the Sassanian period, and we desired an accurate classification for this period, for which the abundance of the pottery recovered in the Sassanian site during the last two seasons provides sufficient material. The excavations at Kish have enabled him to classify pottery of the periods Neo-Babylonian, Old Persian, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanian.

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IRAQ , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , November 1934 , pp. 113 - 123
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1934

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page 114 note 1 Illustrated London News, Feb. 14th and Mar. 7th, 1931.

page 114 note 2 Ibid., Apr. 25th, 1931.

page 115 note 1 Ibid., Feb. 20th, 1932.

page 117 note 1 Kühnel, ibid. 4.

page 118 note 1 See, for example, Raymond Koechlin, Les Céramiques musulmanes de Suse, where the pottery illustrated on pi. I-XXIII described as Musulman can be almost entirely paralleled by pottery found in the Sassanian palace, villa, and other buildings at Kish.

page 118 note 2 I thought at first that this site might be Baṣ, seat of the cult of Bêl-ṣar-bi, V.A.B. IV. 48; 170, 67 e.p. See ibid., p. 300. Baṣ is mentioned in the Obelisk of Manishtusu A, 10, 1 and 16, 20 as a city in Dur-Sin, east of Kish, towards the Tigris.

page 118 note 3 The tablets are published in R.A. XXXIII. 189–91Google Scholar.

page 118 note 4 I also came upon a good wall of the same period at tall D in 1925.

page 121 note 1 Marked v on our field maps, see A.O. XXVI. 55 Google Scholar; Mackay, Cemetery A, part 2; Excavations at Kish, I, pl. 4, photo. No. 1.

page 121 note 2 See plan VII and photographs, pl. XVII.

page 122 note 1 Published in R.A. XXXIII. 190 Google Scholar.