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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM • OXFORD SH Excavations 1923-1933 WITH A MICROFICHE CATALOGUE OF THE OBJECTS IN OXFORD EXCAVATED BY THE OXFORD-FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO, EXPEDITION TO KISH IN IRAQ, 1923-1933 ER.S.Moorey Kish was one of the most important cities of ancient Iraq, the site of crucial political develop- ments in the late fourth and early third millennia B.C., in what is generally acknowledged to be one of the oldest literate urban civilizations in the world. Even after its political supremacy passed its geographical position ensured a continuing role in the history of Mesopotamia to the Islamic conquest. The excavations of the Oxford-Field Museum, Chicago, Expedition from 1923-33 were on a very large-scale, never likely to be repeated, and were never fully published. A final report only exists for one of the six major areas of excavation. This book seeks to fill the gap as far as is now possible by offering a comprehensive survey of the results integrated with information from other excavations in Iraq. A concluding essay attempts a history of Kish. A set of microfiches bound in with the text provide a fully illustrated catalogue raisonne of the Oxford collection of finds from these excavations. They are a representative sample of the whole, complemented by the results of studying the collections in Baghdad and Chicago. Of particular interest are the results of studying the archaeological remains contemporary with the very early secular kingship exercised from Kish, c. 3000-2500 B.C., including the 'chariot graves' and two very early palaces; a well equipped cemetery of the Persian occupation of Iraq in the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.; a series of large Sasanian buildings, two with a unique group of stucco decoration. Dr. Moorey is Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. KISH EXCAVATIONS 1923-1933 ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM • OXFORD KISH EXCAVATIONS 1923-1933 WITH A MICROFICHE CATALOGUE OF THE OBJECTS IN OXFORD EXCAVATED BY THE OXFORD - FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO EXPEDITION TO KISH IN IRAQ, 1923-1933 BY P. R. S. MOOREY M2§ 1978 CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford 0x2 6 D P OXFORD LONDON GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON IBADAN NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM LUSAKA CAPE TOWN KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE JAKARTA HONG KONG TOKYO DELHI BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI © Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1978 Published in co-operation with the Visitors of the Ashmolean by the Delegates of the Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Oxford - Field Museum, Chicago, Expedition Kish excavations, 1923-1933. 1. Kish, Iraq I. Title II. Moorey, Peter Roger Stuart III. Ashmolean Museum 935 DS70.5.K5 ISBN 0-19-813191-7 Printed in Great Britain by Thomson Litho Ltd, East Kilbride, Scotland. CONTENTS Preface vi Acknowledgements x xii List of Maps and Plans Abreviations xi Notes for the Reader x 1 The Exploration of Kish, 1811-1933 1 I Early Exploration: 181-1923 1 II The Oxford-Field Museum (Chicago) Expedition, 1923-3 13 Tels Uhaimir Khazna and Bandar 19 I Uhaimir (a Documentary evidence 19 The Zigurat 20 (c The Temple Area 27 (d The 'town site' 28 (e The «fort» 29 The outlying tels 30 (i) Tel Khazna 30 (i) Tel Bandar 30 3 Area 'P': The Piano-Convex Building 34 (i) Plan and course of excavation 34 (i) Function, antecedents and sucesors 41 4 Mound W 48 (i) The Structures 48 (i) The Graves 50 5 Mound A 5 I The Palace 5 I The Cemetery 61 (i) Grave-groups and Chronology 65 (ii) Graves on Tell Ingharra contemporary with cemetery A 70 I Conclusion 74 6 Tel Inghara 81 I Ancient Hursagkalama 81 f II Excavation Areas other than the 'Y Soundings 83 I The 'Y' Sounding 9 IV Cuting »YW» 14 V Cuting 'YWN' 14 VI 7 Tel H: The Sasanian Setlement 12 8 The Outlying Tells 147 I Jamdat Nasr 147 I Tel Barguthiat 157 I Um el-Jir 158 9 Archaeology and History: the city of Kish, c.30 B.C. to A.D. 650 164 Concise Bibliography 187 Select Index to the main text 200 Index to the catalogue and illustrations on microfiche

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