Excavations at Nippur

Twelfth Season

by McGuire Gibson

Book cover: Excavations at Nippur

Extent: 190 pages

Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Subjects: Ancient Near East, World Archaeology

Series: Oriental Institute Communications

Series volume number: 23

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(January 1978)

ISBN: 9780918986221

Price: $25.00

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Second of the preliminary reports on work at Nippur, this volume gives details of the remains of a series of temples in Area WA and the administrative and residential buildings in Area WB. Includes important treatments of the pottery of the Old Babylonian and Kassite periods, as well as hoards of cuneiform tablets and Islamic silver coins.


The second of the preliminary reports on work at Nippur, this volume also gives details of the remains of a series of temples in Area WA and the administrative and residential buildings in Area WB. Included are important treatments of the pottery of the Old Babylonian and Kassite periods, as well as hoards of cuneiform tablets and Islamic silver coins.

  • By (author) McGuire Gibson