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Nippur V: the Area Wf Sounding: The Early Dynastic to Akkadian Transition (University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications) (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)

By David Reese , McGuire Gibson , Augusta McMahon , Pamela Vandiver

Book information

Publisher
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Year
2006
ISBN
1885923384, 9781885923387
Open Library ID
OL12175733M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (38151010 bytes)
Series
Oriental Institute Publications
Pages
206\512
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The excavation of area WF in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was aimed specifically at delineating the transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian periods, and this goal has been realised. Augusta McMahon took on this task through two seasons, working tirelessly. Stratigraphic exposure of floor after floor of artefacts was slowed drastically by a complex stack of burials that took up almost half of the space in the pit. The pit was taken down until it reached Early Dynastic IIIa, and thus had the material to assess the passage from Early Dynastic to Akkadian in artifactual terms.

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