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Secrets of the Dark Mound: Jemdet Nasr 1926-1928: No. 6 (British School of Archaeology in Iraq) - Softcover
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Excavations in the 1920s at Jemdet Nasr, 100km south of Baghdad, exposed a large building with an assemblage of painted pots, stylized cylinder seals and a collection of early cuneiform tablets, all dating to around 3000BC. The distinctiveness of this material assemblage meant that the site gave its name to the Jemdet Nasr of early Mesopotamian history. The excavations were not fully published at the time and since the 1920s there has been considerable debate about the value and significance of the excavations results. Following two seasons of renewed excavations at Jemdet Nasr in the late 1980s, a programme of recording and anlysis of the 1920s material has been underway, now resulting in this final publication of all non-textual objects excavated at Jemdet Nasr in the 1920s seasons, excluding some items now in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. The bulk of this material has not been adequately published before, and its publication adds to the body of evidence relevant to the study of early society at the time of the development of urban literate civilization on the south Mesopotamian plains.
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Excavations in the 1920s at the site of Jemdet Nasr, 100km south of Baghdad, revealed a number of early cuneiform tablets dating to c.3000BC. Although details of the tablets remain unpublished, Matthews discusses the context in which the tablets existed, the background to the 1920s excavations, the location and context of the site, and describes the non-textual finds including seals and seal impressions, ceramics, stone vessels, spindle whorls, weights, baked clay objects, beads, tokens and gaming pieces. The publication of this material adds much valuable information 'to the study of early society at the time of the development of urban literate civilisation on the south Mesopotamian plains'.
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- PublisherAris & Phillips Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0856687359
- ISBN 13 9780856687358
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages167
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Secrets of the Dark Mound: Jemdet Nasr 1926-1928 [Iraq archaeological reports, 6]
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British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Warminster, 2002
ISBN 10: 0856687359
ISBN 13: 9780856687358
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Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, London, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xiii, 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. This volume is part of a series of articles and books meant to update professionals on research, old and new, at Jemdet Nasr in south central Iraq. The author re-opened excavations at Jemdet Nasr in the late 1980's, although that project is obviously now in limbo. The project was of great importance, because the southern alluvial plains of Iraq are thought to be the place where some of the greatest societal changes in human history occurred for the first time. These include the origin of cities, states, and writing in the fourth millennium and the beginning of territorial states in the third. The site is also the type site for the immediately post-Uruk Jemdet Nasr period, whose very existence was questioned in a volume edited by Finkbeiner in 1986. Seller Inventory # 4BR209
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