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Ancient Settlement in the Zammar Region - Volume I: Introduction and Overview. Excavations at Siyana Ulya, Khirbet Shireena, Khirbet Karhasan, Seh Qubba, Tell Gir Matbakh and Tell Shelgiyya, and other recorded sites (Paperback)
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Ancient Settlement in the Zammar Region - Volume I: Introduction and Overview. Excavations at Siyana Ulya, Khirbet Shireena, Khirbet Karhasan, Seh Qubba, Tell Gir Matbakh and Tell Shelgiyya, and other recorded sites (Paperback)
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
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With a forward by Michael Roaf (and with contributions by Stuart
Campbell, Susan Gill, Anthony Green, Marion Pagan, St John Simpson,
and David Tucker), Warwick Ball reports on the 1985-86 excavations
by the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq in the Saddam Dam
Salvage Project. The area under British investigation lay on the
right bank of the Tigris approximately 100 km northwest of Mosul,
in the Zammar sub-governorate (nahiya) of Nineveh Province. This
volume contains an overview of the settlement sequence of the
Zammar region (from 7th millennium BC), as well as the excavation
reports of Siyana Ulya, Khirbet Shireena, She Qubba, Khirbet
Karhasan, Tell Gir Matbakh, Tell Shelgiyya, and surveys of 28 other
locations. A second volume will deal with the site of Tell Abu
Dhahir and future publications are planned to present the pottery
and specialist reports. The detailed record presented here is the
first stage in making available the results of these investigations
which will gain their full significance when the volumes dealing
with the ceramics and other finds are released. pottery in the
Levant - about 1500 sherds.In this volume, the author undertakes an
analysis and review of this 'Greek emporion', taking as her main
topics for discussion - Al Mina as a 'port of trade', the evidence
for Greek residence on the site, Greek geometric pottery in the
Levant, and Geometric pottery in Greek-Levantine trade.
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