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Tell Brak 1990: The Glyptic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Donald Matthews
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The seals and seal impressions discovered at Tell Brak in the 1990 season are immediately published here, without a full discussion which will be included in a larger study of the Brak glyptic which I am now undertaking. Some comparisons can be found in the treatment of the Brak material from the Mallowan excavations in the Ashmolean catalogue (Buchanan 1966).

The seals and sealings were for the most part found in the FS and SS sites, with some others from the surface of the tell. FS is an area mainly of private houses which were frequently rebuilt. The two latest levels consist for the most part of very large private houses (Oates 1985, 165; Oates 1987, 179). In Level 3 there is a small monumental building contemporary with the Late Agade layer above the main SS complex (Oates 1987, 178-9 fig. 2, 3). North of it was an area of small domestic structures. Level 5 contains a larger monumental building approximately contemporary with the main structure in SS (see the preceding article, p. 132f.).

SS consists of the large ceremonial complex described in the previous article. The structure was deliberately and ritually filled, and very little material survives in situ. At least one late Akkadian layer overlies this complex, and in a few places Early Dynastic material under the complex has been excavated.

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IRAQ , Volume 53 , 1991 , pp. 147 - 157
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1991

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