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Pottery from the University of California, Berkeley Excavations in the Area of the Maski Gate (MG22), Nineveh, 1989-1990 (Paperback)
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Pottery from the University of California, Berkeley Excavations in the Area of the Maski Gate (MG22), Nineveh, 1989-1990 (Paperback)
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Pottery from the University of California, Berkeley Excavations in
the Area of the Maski Gate (MG22), Nineveh, 1989-1990 presents the
pottery from the UC Berkeley excavations in 1989 and 1990. Nineveh
is one of the longest occupied cities in the world, with a record
of habitation extending back to at least the middle of the 7th
millennium BC, continuing in an almost uninterrupted sequence
through today. It was one of the major urban centres in which the
fundamental features of modern civilization first emerged. Its
political and religious significance - particularly during its
apogee as the capital of the Assyrian Empire in the late 8th and
7th centuries BC - secured its status as a legendary metropolis in
history and literature. In 1987, the University of California at
Berkeley initiated a program of archaeological investigations at
Nineveh. The expedition aimed to elucidate the character and layout
of the city's urban neighbourhoods; an aspect of Assyrian urbanism
that had received little close attention in prior excavations. Near
the Maski Gate (MG22), the UC Berkeley team uncovered a district of
large dwellings and wide streets. Multiple layers of occupation and
rebuilding suggest the area was occupied during the period when the
city was handsomely embellished and enlarged by the Assyrian
monarch, king Sennacherib (705/704-681 BC). The work in MG22
provides a stratigraphic history of Late Assyrian ceramics at the
centre of the empire through at least the 7th century BC.
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