| Excavations at Tell Brak: Volume 2 - Nagar in the 3rd Millennium BC Contributor(s): Oates, David (Author), Oates, Joan (Author), McDonald, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0951942093 ISBN-13: 9780951942093 Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Researc OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2001 Annotation: 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 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Middle East - General - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 930.1 |
| Series: McDonald Institute Monographs |
| Physical Information: 1.66" H x 8.54" W x 11.3" (5.24 lbs) 643 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |