The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
(Gertrude Bell Memorial)

Tables of Contents: IRAQ 61 (1999) - 70 (2008)

IRAQ 61, 1999

• iii Obituary
• v Editorial
• p. 1 Geoff Emberling, Jack Cheng, Torben E. Larsen, Holly Pittman, Tim. B.B. Skuldboel, Jill Weber & Henry T. Wright: Excavations at Tell Brak 1998: Preliminary report
• p. 43 Robert Carter, Harriet Crawford and Simeon Mellalieu: The Kuwait-British Archaeological Expedition to as-Sabiyah: Report on the first season's work
• p. 59 John Curtis: Glass inlays and Nimrud ivories
• p. 71 Christopher Edens: Kor Ile-Sud: Qatar: the archaeology of Late Bronze Age purple-dye production in the Arabian Gulf
• p. 89 Jocelyn Orchard & Gordon Stanger: Al-Hajar oasis towns again!
• p. 121 Paul Yule: The Samad period in the Sultanate of Oman
• p.147 Alfonso Archi: The steward and his jar
• p. 159 Steve Tinney: On the curricular setting of Sumerian literature
• p. 173 Ivan Starr & F.N.H. Al-Rawi: Tablets from the Sippar Library VIII. Omens from the gall bladder
• p. 187 Ali Yaseen Ahmad & A. Kirk Grayson: Sennacherib in the Akitu House
• p. 191 Nawala al-Mutawalli: A new foundation cylinder from the temple of Nabû ša harê
• p. 195 Recent excavations in Iraq

IRAQ 62, 2000

• iii Editorial
• p. 1 Antoine Cavigneaux & Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi: La fin de Gilgames, Enkidu et les Enfers d'après les manuscrits d'Ur et de Meturan (Textes de Tell Haddad VIII)
• p.21 Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi: Cuneiform inscriptions in the collections of the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
• p. 65 Shigeo Yamada: Peter Hulin's hand copies of Shalmaneser III's inscriptions
• p. 89 J.N. Postgate: The Assyrian army at Zamua
• p.109 Margaret Huxley: The gates and guardians in Sennacherib's addition to the temple of Assur
• p. 139 Erica C.D. Hunter: Two incantation bowls from Babylon
• p. 149 Naomi F. Miller: Plant forms in jewellery from the Royal Cemetery at Ur
• p.157 Margaret Sax, Nigel D. Meeks & Dominique Collon: The early development of the lapidary engraving wheel in Mesopotamia
• p.177 Luca Peyronel: Some remarks on Mesopotamian metrology during the Old Babylonian period: The evidence from Graves LG/23 and LG/45 at Ur
• p.187 T.C. Mitchell: Camels in the Assyrian bas-reliefs
• p.195 Julian Reade: Alexander the Great and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• p.219 Ted Kaizer: The 'Heracles figure' at Hatra and Palmyra: Problems of interpretation
• : The excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000
• p.233 Paul Yule: The Samad period in the Sultanate of Oman, errata
• p. 234 Recent excavations in Iraq, errata

IRAQ 63, 2001

• iii Editorial
• v Obituary
• p. 1 Robert Carter & Harriet Crawford: The Kuwait-British Archaeo-logical Expedition to as-Sabiyah: Report on the second season's work
• p. 21 Augusta McMahon: The excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000
• p. 55 Michael Roaf: Doubts about the two-lobed burial and the survival of Early Dynastic to Akkadian transitional building levels in Area WF at Nippur
• p. 67 Frank Hole: A radiocarbon chronology for the middle Khabur, Syria
• p. 99 Maude de Schauensee: A note on three glass plaques from Hasanlu
• p. 107 Geoffrey Turner: Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh: The drawings of H. A. Churchill and the discoveries of H. J. Ross
• p. 139 Gábor Zólyomi: Another recension of Išme-Dagan O: BM 114862 (CT 58 25)
• p. 149 David Brown & Gábor Zólyomi: 'Daylight converts to night-time': An astrological-astronomical reference in Sumerian literary context
• p. 155 Stephanie Dalley: Old Babylonian tablets from Nineveh; and possible pieces of early Gilgamesh Epic
• p. 169 Leonard W. King & A. Kirk Grayson: The palace of Ashur-resha-ishi I at Nineveh
• p. 171 W. Horowitz & F.N.H. Al-Rawi: Tablets from the Sippar library IX. A ziqpu-star planisphere
• p. 183 J.A. Black: Amethyst
• p. 187 J.E. Reade: More about Adiabene
• p. 201 Augusta McMahon, Önhan Tunca & Abdul-Massih Bagdo: New Excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000

IRAQ 64, 2002

• iii Editorial
• p. 1 Robert Carter & Harriet Crawford: The Kuwait-British Archaeological Expedition to as-Sabiyah: Report on the third season;s work
• p. 15 Jason A. Ur: Surface collection and offsite studies at Tell Hamoukar, 1999
• p. 45 McGuire Gibson et al.: First season of Syrian-American investigations at Hamoukar, Hasekeh Province
• p. 69 Andrew M.T. Moore: Pottery-kiln sites at al-'Ubaid and Eridu
• p. 79 Elizabeth C. Stone: The Ur III--Old Babylonian transition: an archaeological perspective
• p. 85 Cameron Petrie: Seleucid Uruk: An analysis of ceramic distribution
• p. 125 Claudia Fischer: Twilight of the sun-god
• p. 135 J.E. Reade: The ziggurat and temples of Nimrud
• p. 217 John MacGinnis: The use of writing boards in the Neo-Babylonian temple administration at Sippar
• p. 237 W. Horowitz & W. G. Lambert: A new exemplar of Ludlul bel nemeqi Tablet I from Birmingham
• p. 247 Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi: Tablets from the Sippar library X. A dedication of Zabaya of Larsa
• p. 249 Khalid Salim Isma'el & A.R. George: Tablets from the Sippar Library XI. The Babylonian almanac
• p. 259 Erica C.D. Hunter: Manipulating incantation texts: Excursions in Refrain A

IRAQ 65, 2003

• iii Editorial
• p. 1 Geoff Emberling & Helen McDonald: Excavations at Tell Brak 2001-2002: Preliminary report
• p. 77 Robert Carter & Harriet Crawford: The Kuwait-British Archaeological Expedition to as-Sabiyah: Report on the fourth season's work
• p. 91 Theya Molleson & Dawn Hodgson: The human remains from Woolley's excavations at Ur
• p. 131 Laura Battini & Yves Calvet: Construction royale, construction privée: La maison B 59 de Larsa
• p. 143 Jürgen Bär: Sumerians, Gutians and Hurrians at Ashur? A re-examination of Ishta temples G and F
• p. 161 Nicolò Marchetti: Notes on an Old Syrian seal impression from Sippar
• p. 171 Jeanny Vorys Canby: A figurine from Urkesh: A "Darling" from Troy to Mesopotamia
• p. 175 Geoffrey Turner: Sennacherib's Palace at Nineveh: The primary sources for Layard's second campaign
• p. 221 Nils P. Heeßel & Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi: Tablets from the Sippar library XII. A medical therapeutic text

IRAQ 66, 2004 and IRAQ 67/1, 2005

Nineveh, Papers of the XLIXe Rencontre Assyrioloque Internationale; London, 7-11 July 2003

• iii Editorial
• v Obituaries
• x Participants of RAI 49 outside the British Museum
• xi Foreward
• xv Programme of Papers
• p. 1 Marc Van De Mieroop: A tale of two cities: Nineveh and Baylon
• p. 7 Joan Goodnick Westenholz: The Old Akkadian presence in Nineveh: Fact or fiction
• p. 19 Nele Ziegler: The conquest of the holy city of Nineveh and the kingdom of Nurrugûm by Samsî-Addu
• p. 27 Aline Tenu: Ninive et Aššur à l'époque médio-assyrienne
• p. 35 W.G. Lambert: Ishtar of Nineveh and her collaborator, Ishtar of Arbela,in the reign of Assurbanipal
• p. 45 Eckart Frahm: Royal hermeneutics: Observations on the commentaries from Assurbanipal's libraries at Nineveh
• p. 51 Herman L.J. Vanstiphout: The nth degree of writing at Nineveh
• p. 55 Jeanette C. Fincke: The British Museum's Assurbanipal Library Project
• p. 61 Ann M. Weaver: The "Sin of Sargon" and Esarhaddon's reconception of Sennacherib: A study in divine will, human politics and royal ideology
• p. 67 Mehmet-Ali Ataç: The "Underwordl Vision" of the Ninevite intellectual milieu
• p. 77 Cynthia Jean: Le petit monde des exorciste de Ninive
• p. 83 Tally Ornan: Expelling demons at Nineveh: The visibility of benevolent demons in the palaces of Nineveh
• p. 93 Dominik Bonatz: Assurbanipal's headhunt: An anthropological perspective
• p. 103 Chikako Esther Watanabe: The "continuous style" in the narrative schemes of Assurbanipal's reliefs
• p. 115 Zainab Bahrani: The king's head
• p. 121 Rita Dolce: The "head of the enemy" in the sculptures from the palaces of Nineveh: An example of "cultural migration"?
• p. 133 Virginie Danrey: Winged human-headed bulls of Nineveh: Genesis of an iconographic motif
• p. 141 Marian Feldman: Nineveh to Thebes and back: Art and politics between Assyria and Egypt in the seventh century BCE
• p. 151 Allison Karmel Thomason: From Sennacherib's bronzes to Taharqa's feet: Conceptions of the material world at Nineveh
• p. 163 M.G. Micale and D.Nadali: The shape of Sennacherib's camps: Strategic funcions and ideological space
• p. 177 Mirko Novák: From Ashur to Nineveh: The Assyrian town-planning programme
• p. 187 Stephen Lumsden: The production of space at Nineveh
• p. 199 Marta Rivaroli: Nineveh: From ideology to topography
• p. 207 Karen Polinger Foster: The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh
• p. 221 Eleanor Guralnick: Neo-Assyrian patterned fabrics
• p. 233 Menko Vlaardingerbroek: The founding of Nineveh and Babylon in Greek historiography
• p. 243 Steven W. Holloway: Nineveh sails for the New World: Assyria envisioned by nineteenth-century America
• p. 257 Regina Heilmann: "Those Old Assyrian Legends": Zur Rezeption des Alten Orients im widerentdeckten Kurzfilm LA REGINA DI NINIVE (Italien 1911)

IRAQ 67/2, 2005

• iii Editorial
• vi Obituaries
• p. 1 Augusta McMahon, Carlo Colantoni and Miranda Semple: British excavations at Chagar Bazar, 2001-2
• p. 17 Peter V. Bartl: Layard's drawings of the incised decorations on the Nimrud reliefs compared with the originals
• p. 31 Phillipe Quenet: The diffusion of the cuneiform writing system in northern Mesopotamia: The earliest archaeological evidence
• p. 41 Harriet Crawford: Mesopotamia and the Gulf: The history of a relationship
• p. 47 James Kinnier Wilson: On the UD-ŠU-BALA at Ur towards the end of the third millennium BC
• p. 61 Bendt Alster: Demons in the conclusion of Lugalbanda in Hurrumkurra

IRAQ 68, 2006

• iii Editorial
• v Obituary
• p. 1 Caroline Waerzeggers: The Carians of Borsippa
• p. 23 F.N.H. Al-Rawi and A.R. George: Tablets from the Sippar Library XIII: Enuma Anu Ellil XX
• p. 59 Martin Worthington: Dialect admixture of Babylonian and Assyrian in SAA VIII, X, XII, XVII and XVIII
• p. 85 Frances Pinnock: Ebla and Ur: Exhanges and contacts between two great capitals of the ancient Near East
• p. 99 Paul Collins: Trees and Gender in Assyrian art
• p. 109 Davide Nadali: Esarhaddon's glazed bricks from Nimrud: The Egyptian campaign depicted
• p. 121 Timonth J. Poisel: Plate LIII from Til-Barsip: The left-handed Assyrian king
• p. 129 Maude de Schauensee: A note on bit types at Hasanlu
• p. 139 Ted Kaizer: Capital punishment at Hatra: Gods, magistrates and laws in the Roman-Parthian period
• p. 155 Mark Altaweel: Excavations in Iraq: The Ray Jazirah Project, first report
• p. 183 David J. Tucker and Stefan R. Hauser: Beyond the World Heritage Site: A huge enclosure revealed at Hatra

IRAQ LXIX (69) 2007

• iii Editorial
• v Obituary
• p. 1 Bendt Alster and Takayoshi Oshima: Sargonic dinner at Kaneš: The Old Assyrian Sargon legend
• p. 21 Joan Goodnick Westenholz: Notes on the Old Assyrian Sargon legend
• p. 29 Daniel Schwemeer: Witchcraft and war: The ritiual fragment Ki 1904-10-9, 18 (BM 98989)
• p. 43 Dominique Collon: The Queen under attack - A rejoinder
• p. 53 John Curtis: The Broken Obelisk
• p. 59 Tallay Ornan: Who is holding the lead rope? The relief of the Broken Obelisk
• p. 73 Rafal Kolinski: Sir Max Mallowan's excavations at Tell Arbid in 1936
• p. 117 Mark Altaweel: Excavations in Iraq: The Jazirah Salvage Project, second report
• p. 145 Augusta McMahon and Joan Oates: Excavations at Tell Brak 2006-2007

IRAQ LXX (70) 2008

 

• iii Editorial
• p. 1 ALISON MILLERMAN: Interpreting the Royal Cemetery of Ur metalwork: A contemporary perspective from the archives of James R. Ogden
• p. 13 JULIAN READE: Real and imagined “Hittite palaces” at Khorsabad and elsewhere   
• p. 41 NICHOLAS GILLMANN: Le Bâtiment isolé de Khorsabad: Une nouvelle tentative de reconstitution
• p. 51 ZOLTÁN NIEDERREITER: Le rôle des symboles figurés attribués aux membres de la Cour de Sargon II: Des emblèmes créés par les lettrés du palais au service de l’idéologie royale  
• p. 87 DAVIDE NADALI: Assyrian high-relief bricks from Nineveh and the fragments of a royal name
• p. 105 J. NOVOTNY and C. E. WATANABE: After the fall of Babylon: A new look at the presentation scene on Assurbanipal relief BM ME 124945–6  
• p. 127 JOACHIM OELSNER: Die Rollsiegel der Sammlung Rich des British Museum
• p. 131 MAGNUS WIDELL: The Sumerian expression igi-kar2 revisited 
• p. 147 BAHIJAH KH. ISMAIL and J. NICHOLAS POSTGATE: A Middle Assyrian flock-master’s archive from Tell Ali
• p. 179 JEFFREY L. COOLEY: “I want to dim the brilliance of ∞ulpae!” Mesopotamian celestial divination and the poem of Erra and I·um
• p. 189 DAISUKE SHIBATA: A Nimrud manuscript of the fourth tablet of the series m¬s pî: CTN IV 170(+)188 and a Kiutu incantation to the sun god
• p. 205 F. RACHEL MAGDALENE, BRUCE WELLS and CORNELIA WUNSCH: Pre-trial negotiations: The case of the runaway slave in Dar. 53
• p. 215 JOHN CURTIS, QAIS HUSSEIN RAHEED, HUGO CLARKE, ABDULAMIR M. AL HAMDANI, ELIZABETH STONE, MARGARETE VAN ESS, PAUL COLLINS and MEHSIN ALI: An assessment of archaeological sites in June 2008: An Iraqi-British project