Nagar in the 3rd Millennium BC
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/12/2001
Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, was one of the most important cities in northern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC and a focus of long-distance trade. It was also, for about a century, a provincial capital of the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon of Agade. This is the second of four volumes on the 1976-93 excavations at Tell Brak. The construction level of Naram-Sin's Palace, discovered by Mallowan in the 1930s, has been used as a point of chronological reference to provide the first well-dated corpus of archaeological material in northern Mesopotamia belonging to the second half of the third millennium. The major Akkadian buildings at Tell Brak are the first well-preserved examples to be discovered at any site, and include a great ceremonial complex and a unique caravanserai that housed the donkey caravans bringing metals from Anatolia. During the ritual closure of these buildings beautiful silver jewellery was deposited, along with numerous copper/bronze tools and the skeletons of some of the caravan donkeys. Specialist reports provide detailed historical, geomorphological, ceramic, faunal, botanical, microstratigraphic and other data.
- ISBN:
- 9780951942093
- 9780951942093
- Category:
- Archaeology by period / region
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-12-2001
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 643
- Dimensions (mm):
- 280x216x42mm
- Weight:
- 2.38kg
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