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MOUNDS OF THE NEAR EAST f Mounds of the Near East surveys the course and development of archaeological research in Iraq, Syria and Anatolia
during its most formative years, in war. particular since the end of the 1914-18
From 1929 until 1961 the author played a central role in that development. This as a gives the book added importance,
primary source. Furthermore, Professor Seton Lloyd sets out to explain and to defend the methods adopted by to resolve archaeologists in the Near East
the peculiar problems of excavating mud-brick mounds, and to show that this is
a specialised form of archaeology,
which requires specialised training. This
makes for stimulating reading, particularly for those trained in the belief that the
techniques applicable to classical
archaeology in Europe have universal validity.
f The author is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the University of London, and, from 1946 to 1961, was Director of the British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara,
f The drawing on the cover is of the largest j
of the *worshipper statues discovered in the excavation of Tell Asmar.
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MOUNDS
OF THE NEAR EAST SETON LLOYD
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
SETON LLOYD 1963 THE EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS GEORGE SQUARE EDINBURGH 8 U.S. & CANADIAN AGENT ALDINE PUBLISHING COMPANY EAST VANBUREN STREET, CHICAGO I
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PREFACE work of this calibre merits the dignity of a dedication, it is to my fellowworkers of several nationalities in the field of Near Eastern archaeology that it should be directed, in affection and intermittent nostalgia. Their names in these with a is which in appear pages frequency proportion to my ad miration for their ability. The substance of the book was given in the Rhind Lectures for 1962, and I am grateful to the University of Edinburgh for the opportunity to artic ulate the views which it contains. In particular, I am indebted to two Edinburgh scholars, Professors D. Talbot Rice and Stuart Piggott for their encouragement, while exonerating them from any complicity in the ex pression of my opinions. Among those to whom my thanks are due for permission to use illustrations are The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, The Iraq Government Directorate General of Antiquities, the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and the Clarendon Press. If a
University of London, Institute of Archaeology,
SETON LLOYD 1963.
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CONTENTS Introduction
Pag 6
Mound
Formation and Excavation
9
Chapter
i
Chapter
2:
Mesopotamian Methods
29
Chapter
3:
South
48
:
Chapter 4: North
Iraq:
Sumerian
Sites
Mounds
Iraq: Prehistoric
5
:
Excavations in Anatolia
Chapter 6
:
Finding and Choosing
Chapter
Index
Mounds
13
65
79
97
115
LIST OF PLATES
Figure Figure
i.
2.
AND FIGURES
Diagram of mound formations Diagram of building levels Old
on mound.
1.
Erbil:
2.
Stepped sounding
city
at Sultantepe.
Mound and
3.
Sultantepe:
4.
Mersin: Excavations in Yumiik Tepe.
5.