Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
An expedition under the auspices of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq completed its eighth season at Nimrud, ancient Calah, during the first week of May 1957 after a two months' campaign which began early in March. For most of the season about two hundred workmen were employed including a number of skilled Sherqatis who have been with us from 1949 onwards. This year was memorable in the annals of the dig for two reasons: first we concluded our programme of work on the akropolis itself; secondly we began the excavation in the outer town of the great building known as Fort Shalmaneser which is likely to prove to be a military establishment more important than any other hitherto discovered in ancient Assyria and most prolific in its yield of antiquities.
A preliminary account of the season's work with numerous photographs appeared in the Illustrated London News of Nov. 23rd, 30th and Dec. 7th, 1957.
page 105 note 1 The seals and amulets found here and in the neighbouring houses will be published in detail by Miss Barbara Parker, in a future number of Iraq.
page 105 note 2 Similar conditions obtained much earlier at T. Brak in the Habur valley, cf. Iraq IX Pt. I, p. 49Google Scholar where I noted that the state of insecurity after 2000 B.C. induced the inhabitants to live on the top of an inconveniently high mound. The digging of very deep wells and porterage of water must have been a serious handicap.