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Some Ancient Sites in the Sinjar District

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Seton Lloyd
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The following paper is an account of a survey made on behalf of the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, as part of the work of the Neilson Expedition to the Near East. The object of this survey was to investigate as many ancient sites as possible in the neighbourhood of the Jebel Sinjar, in order to link up the Khabur region, so thoroughly examined by Mr. Mallowan in 1934, with the river Tigris and the archaeologically better known area to the east of it. The writer's personal interest was largely concentrated upon the formidable array of mounds representing settlements of the pre-Christian era, with some emphasis on those dating from prehistoric times. He was, however, also fortunate in having the assistance of Mr. G. R. Reitlinger, whose comments on and photographs of some of the Islamic and other late remains form the subject of a separate section of this article in this number of Iraq. It was a chance circumstance that Sir Aurel Stein was at the same time at work upon a survey of the Roman Limes, also covering the Sinjar district. This seemed to justify a somewhat cursory examination of sites which were obviously Roman.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1938 , pp. 123 - 142
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1938

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page 123 note 1 British Museum Expedition.

page 123 note 2 Fig. 1 is composed from the two most up-to-date maps of this area: (i) Bureau Topographique des Troupes Françaises du Levant. Tirage de Juillet 1937—1:200,000 Kamichlie–Sinjar. (ii) British Ordnance Survey 1923. Sheet J–38—1: 250,000, Iraq–Tall A'far.

page 123 note 3 There was still snow upon these in April this year.

page 124 note 1 Tall Brak lies within a few hundred metres of the Jaghjagh river, and both appear in the northwest corner of Fig. 1.

page 124 note 2 A preponderance of which was found at a single site, Yarim Tepe (Site No. 34), and only isolated sherds elsewhere.

page 126 note 1 Archaeology and the Sumerian Problem, 72.

page 128 note 1 Herzfeld, . Die vorgeschichtlichen Töpfereien von Samarra, Berlin, 1930 Google Scholar.

page 128 note 2 Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, XX.

page 128 note 3 Cf. also painted pottery of the Neolithic period found by Prof. Garstang in Cilicia, in a forthcoming number of the Liverpool Annals.

page 132 note 1 See Oppenheim, Von, Tell Halaf, London, 1933 Google Scholar.

page 132 note 2 I am indebted to Mr. Charles Bache for this information. See also Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 68 (12 1937), fig. 2Google Scholar.

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page 133 note 1 Mounds in the Plain of Antioch (O.I.P. XLVIII).

page 133 note 2 Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, XX, 1933, 168 Google Scholar.

page 133 note 3 Archaeology and the Sumerian Problem (S. A.O.C. 4, 17); Warka., Archaic layers V and XII; Ur, ‘Waster stratum’ (end cf. Al-‘Ubaid, III, and prior to Jēmdet Nasr); Susa, , Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse, I, 84 Google Scholar, Nos. 118–21.

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page 134 note 3 See also sites 3 and 12.

page 135 note 1 The inscription refers to a palace built by the Assyrian King Aššur-reš-iši. Mr. Sidney Smith suggests that this may have been a hunting lodge. Alternatively, if proved to be a more important palace it would perhaps explain why the king's name appears so little in records found at Nineveh and elsewhere. I append Mr. Smith's reading:

E. GAL Aššur-riš-i(?)-[ši]

šarru dannu šar kiššati šar (mātu) [Aššur (ki)] ša E. GAL ša (ālu)….

page 140 note 1 See notes on group IV (10).