Pottery from the University of California, Berkeley Excavations in the Area of the Maški Gate (MG22), Nineveh, 1989-1990
By (author) Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson By (author) Stephen Lumsden
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(August 2022)
ISBN: 9781803272153
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Nineveh, Iraq, is one of the longest occupied cities in the world, dating at least back to the mid-7th millennium BC. UC Berkeley excavations uncovered a district of large dwellings and wide streets near the Maski Gate (MG22), providing a stratigraphic history of Late Assyrian ceramics at the centre of the empire through to the 7th c
Pottery from the University of California, Berkeley Excavations in the Area of the Maski Gate (MG22), Nineveh, 1989-1990 presents the pottery from the UC Berkeley excavations in 1989 and 1990. Nineveh is one of the longest occupied cities in the world, with a record of habitation extending back to at least the middle of the 7th millennium BC, continuing in an almost uninterrupted sequence through today. It was one of the major urban centres in which the fundamental features of modern civilization first emerged. Its political and religious significance – particularly during its apogee as the capital of the Assyrian Empire in the late 8th and 7th centuries BC – secured its status as a legendary metropolis in history and literature. In 1987, the University of California at Berkeley initiated a program of archaeological investigations at Nineveh. The expedition aimed to elucidate the character and layout of the city’s urban neighbourhoods; an aspect of Assyrian urbanism that had received little close attention in prior excavations. Near the Maski Gate (MG22), the UC Berkeley team uncovered a district of large dwellings and wide streets. Multiple layers of occupation and rebuilding suggest the area was occupied during the period when the city was handsomely embellished and enlarged by the Assyrian monarch, king Sennacherib (705/704-681 BC). The work in MG22 provides a stratigraphic history of Late Assyrian ceramics at the centre of the empire through at least the 7th century BC.
Preface Chapter 1. Introduction The MG22 Pottery Catalogue: Project History Historical Context of the MG22 Pottery Assemblage Regional Archaeological Context: Relating the MG22 Pottery to Other Sites Methodology The MG22 Pottery Data Set Chapter 2. MG22 Vessel Types: Representative Pottery Categories MG22 Vessel Types - Bowls MG22 Vessel Types - Jars Decorated Pottery Painted and Glazed Pottery (MG22 Catalogue Plates 9.07; 19.1-3; 19.21; 24.1-7; 27.08; 33.21; 33.23) Chapter 3. MG22 Pottery According to Stratigraphic Level Level IV Level IVd (Catalogue Plates 30-33) Level IVb (Catalogue Plate 25) and Level IVc (Catalogue Plates 26-29) Level IVa (Catalogue Plates 20-24) Level III Level IIIc (Catalogue Plates 13-19) Level IIIa (Catalogue Plate 12) and Level IIIb (Catalogue Plate 12) Level II Level IIb (Catalogue Plates 10-11) Level IIa (Catalogue Plates 5-9) Level I (Catalogue Plates 1-4) Chapter 4. Discussion The Identification of Post-Assyrian Pottery in MG22 Nineveh After 612 BC: Evidence from the Hinterlands The Occupation Sequence in MG22 Bibliography Catalogue of MG22 Pottery According to Level Catalogue Plates, Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
The MG22 Pottery Catalogue: Project History ;
Historical Context of the MG22 Pottery Assemblage ;
Regional Archaeological Context: Relating the MG22 Pottery to Other Sites ;
Methodology ;
The MG22 Pottery Data Set ;
Chapter 2. MG22 Vessel Types: Representative Pottery Categories
MG22 Vessel Types – Bowls ;
MG22 Vessel Types – Jars ;
Decorated Pottery ;
Painted and Glazed Pottery (MG22 Catalogue Plates 9.07; 19.1-3; 19.21; 24.1-7; 27.08; 33.21; 33.23) ;
Chapter 3. MG22 Pottery According to Stratigraphic Level
Level IV ;
Level IVd (Catalogue Plates 30-33)
Level IVb (Catalogue Plate 25) and Level IVc (Catalogue Plates 26-29)
Level IVa (Catalogue Plates 20-24)
Level III ;
Level IIIc (Catalogue Plates 13-19)
Level IIIa (Catalogue Plate 12) and Level IIIb (Catalogue Plate 12)
Level II ;
Level IIb (Catalogue Plates 10-11)
Level IIa (Catalogue Plates 5-9)
Level I (Catalogue Plates 1-4) ;
Chapter 4. Discussion
The Identification of Post-Assyrian Pottery in MG22 ;
Nineveh After 612 BC: Evidence from the Hinterlands ;
The Occupation Sequence in MG22 ;
Bibliography
Catalogue of MG22 Pottery According to Level
Catalogue Plates
Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson has excavated and surveyed extensively across the Middle East and in the Caucasus. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a trained architect. She has led research projects at the University of Edinburgh and at Durham University, and was most recently an honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Stephen Lumsden is a Near Eastern Archaeologist, with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern History and World Cultures, National Museum of Denmark. He is currently part of an international team studying the collection in the museum from the Danish excavations in the 1930s at the site of Hama, in Syria.
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