Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
The sixth season of excavations at Tell al Rimah took place from the middle of March to the end of May, 1971. The work was directed by the writer, assisted by Dr. Julian Reade (Assistant Director), Miss Nan Shaw (Conservator), Mrs. Carolyn Postgate (in charge of pottery), Miss Shereen Ratnagar (registrar), Mr. David Hawkins (epigraphist) and Mr. John Curtis (archaeologist) who also took charge of the metal objects. Sayid Sabah Abboud was the Representative of the Directorate General of Antiquities, and played a full and energetic part in the work of the expedition. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the whole staff, and to Dr. Isa Salman, Director General of Antiquities, Professor Fuad Safar, Inspector General of Excavations, and all our other friends and colleagues in the Directorate General for the warm welcome and friendly cooperation which we have always received from them. We were especially pleased this year to receive visits from Professor and Mrs. Seton Lloyd, who stayed and worked with us for some days, and from Mrs. Diana Helbaek, Director of the British School. One other visitor to the site deserves special mention, Sayid Hassan Abdullah, who worked for us for many seasons at Nimrud, but who began his career in excavation under the late Professor Walter Andrae at Assur in the closing years of the last century. The excavations were sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, assisted by grants from the British Academy, the Musée Royal d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, and an anonymous donor.
1 Earlier reports on the excavations have appeared in Iraq 27 (1965), 62 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 28 (1966), 122 ff., 29 (1967), 70 ff., 30 (1968), 115 ff., and 32 (1970), 1 ff.
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3 A. Parrot, Mari: Le Palais, Architecture, Fig. 106 and folding plan.
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5 D. E. McCown and R. C. Haines, Nippur I, OIP LXVIII, Plates 15, 17, 22.
6 To be published by Mr. David Hawkins.
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10 ARMT II, 39.
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