From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V2001 #223 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Sunday, December 23 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 223 anenews 'Excavations at Tell Brak, volume 2: Nagar in the third millennium BC' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:00:39 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews 'Excavations at Tell Brak, volume 2: Nagar in the third millennium BC' From Helen McDonald Now available, 'Excavations at Tell Brak, volume 2: Nagar in the third millennium BC' by David Oates, Joan Oates and Helen McDonald Published jointly by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated report on one of the great archaeological sites in ancient Mesopotamia includes colour illustrations of remarkable, indeed unique, Akkadian architecture, sculpture, and silver jewellery, and contributions by 28 specialists. Book details - ------------ Series: McDonald Institute Monographs Pages: xxxii + 644 pp.; 493 illustrations, 60 tables ISBN: 0-9519420-9-3 hardback ISSN: 1363-1349 Price: £95; US$150 Distributors: Oxbow Books and the David Brown Book Company To order your copy: USA: The David Brown Book Company, P.O. Box 511, Oakville, CT 06779, USA. Tel: 860-945-9329; FAX: 860-945-9468 UK and rest of the world: Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford, OX1 1HN. Tel: (0)(1865) 241249; Fax: (0)(1865) 794449 (a discount of 20% is available to members of the BSAI ie subscribers to Iraq the periodical). 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 three volumes on the 1976­93 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 some of the caravan donkeys themselves. Tell Brak is also the first site in northern Mesopotamia to provide a well-dated corpus of archaeological material from the later third millennium BC. Specialist reports provide detailed historical, geomorphological, ceramic, faunal, botanical, microstratigraphic and other data. About the Main Authors: David and Joan Oates are directors of the Tell Brak Project and Helen McDonald is one of two field directors. All three are based at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge. - ---------- Also available in the same series: Excavations at Tell Brak, vol. 1: The Mitanni and Old Babylonian periods By David Oates, Joan Oates and Helen McDonald This is the first of three volumes on the 1976­93 excavations at Tell Brak in northeast Syria. Identified as ancient Nagar/Nawar, it is one of the largest urban sites in northern Mesopotamia. In volume 1 the second-millennium BC material is published in full, including a detailed account of the monumental Palace and Temple of Mitanni date (Late Bronze Age) and a sequence of second-millennium domestic occupation dating from c.1700­1200 bc. This is the most extensive and best-dated Mitanni material yet known. Of especial interest is unique evidence from Palace workrooms for craft activities involving materials such as glass, iron, copper, bronze and ivory. Official cuneiform records add to our historical knowledge of this important but archaeologically little-known kingdom. Book details - ------------ Series: McDonald Institute Monographs Pages: xxii + 296 pages, 239 illustrations, 14 tables ISBN: 0-9519420-5-0 hardback ISSN: 1363-1349 Price: £45; US$80 Distributors: Oxbow Books and the David Brown Book Company ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V2001 #223 ******************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html