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The Buildings on Quyunjiq, The Larger Mound of Nineveh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. Campbell Thompson
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Nineveh, enclosed within a rampart, representing, for the most part, Sennacherib's work, nearly eight miles in perimeter, consists of the two great mounds, Quyunjiq (more than half a mile long by a quarter broad) and Nebi Yūnus, the mound of the Prophet Jonah, considerably smaller in size, and the flats within the walls at the foot of these mounds, wherein dwelt the bulk of the people. To the east, the more exposed side, there is also another large rampart outside the complete encircling wall, which seems never to have been completed. Whether the Tigris washed the SW. flank in historic times is uncertain, although such a course for that river is possible.

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IRAQ , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , April 1934 , pp. 95 - 104
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1934

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page 95 note 1 In the four expeditions 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931 to Nineveh I was most ably assisted at various times by Mr. R. W. Hutchinson, Mr. R. W. Hamilton, and Mr. M. E. L. Mallowan. My wife was with me for the last three seasons, and I think I may say that the household felt the benefit of her oversight. With her during the various seasons were our friends Miss I. Campbell Shaw, Miss M. Hallett, and Mrs. Mallowan, all of whom gave valuable help in many ways. In the first season the British Museum, my College, Merton, and the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund augmented most generously an initial contribution which I was able to make myself, and Mr. Hutchinson, coming for his bare expenses alone, helped thus substantially towards the expedition. The following season the funds were initiated by the British Museum, the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, the Society of Antiquaries, Mr. O. C. Raphael, Miss Eleanor Hull, and some small amount from the sale of our Century of Exploration on the Museum bookstalls, and then Sir Charles Hyde most generously stepped in, not only to bridge the deficit of this season, but to provide for two more whole seasons himself, as well as largely subsidizing the publication of results. Besides this, the expeditions felt that they owed him more than the mere provision of the money for their interesting work: the personal interest which he took in their welfare, as well as in the results, was a very lively encouragement. To Sir Frederic Kenyon in the first expeditions and to Sir George Hill subsequently, for all their sympathetic help in furthering these excavations, is due the gratitude of all those connected with the work.

Abbreviations herein are: A.A.A., Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology: Arch., Archaeologia, 1929, LXXIX. 103 ff.Google Scholar: Cen., A Century of Exploration at Nineveh.

page 96 note 1 Smith, Sidney, Cappad. Cun. Tablets, I, pl. 50, No. 113257, ll. 15 and 40 Google Scholar.

page 96 note 2 Found when Mr. Hamilton was with me. They are now in the British Museum, and are published in A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 105 Google Scholar.

page 96 note 3 See A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 59 Google Scholar.

page 98 note 1 There is a fragment, apparently still earlier, given in Arch., pl. XLIII, 47.

page 98 note 2 Arch. 126; A.A.A. XX, 1933 Google Scholar.

page 99 note 1 For a photograph see Ill. Lond. News, July 16th, 1932, 98; for text, A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 107 Google Scholar.

page 99 note 2 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 93 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 99 note 3 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 114 Google Scholar.

page 99 note 4 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 97 Google Scholar.

page 100 note 1 Ass. Disc. 251, presumably at Nineveh, but he dug also elswhere.

page 100 note 2 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 107, 115 Google Scholar.

page 100 note 3 A.A.A. XX, 1933, No. 98Google Scholar.

page 100 note 4 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 98 Google Scholar.

page 100 note 5 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 107 Google Scholar: for slabs, see Arch. 119.

page 100 note 6 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 98 Google Scholar: palace brick, A.A.A. XVIII, 1931, 98 Google Scholar.

page 100 noet 7 Arch. 117.

page 100 noet 8 Arch. 126, quoted above.

page 100 note 9 See A.A.A. XVIII, 1931, 84, 91 Google Scholar.

page 101 note 1 A.A.A. XVIII, 1931, 89 Google Scholar.

page 101 note 1 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 65 Google Scholar.

page 101 note 3 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, pl. XCGoogle Scholar.

page 101 note 4 A.A.A. XIX, 1932, 107: pl. XLIX, 3Google Scholar.

page 101 note 5 Arch. 118, 119, 120, nos. 2, 17, 34; A.A.A. XVIII, 1931, 93: XIX, 1932, 112Google Scholar.

page 101 note 6 Arch. 118, pl. LIX, 4: Cen., pls. VI, VII.

page 102 note 1 See Cen. 117. This king left also a stele, which we recovered in pieces from the neighbourhood of the temple of Ishtar, recording his assignment of the province of Hindana to Nergal-eresh ( A.A.A. XX, 1933, No. 105 Google Scholar).

page 102 note 2 Arch. 123.

page 103 note 1 Arch. 123; A.A.A. XVIII, 1931, 100 Google Scholar.

page 103 note 2 Cen. 117; Arch. 123.

page 103 note 3 Arch. 124.

page 103 note 4 Arch. 135; Cen. 65.

page 103 note 5 Arch. 120.

page 103 note 6 Cen. 83; A.A.A. XX, 1933, pl. CVGoogle Scholar.

page 104 note 1 Cen. 66.

page 104 note 2 Cen. 75; Arch. 120.

page 104 note 3 See my Prisms of Esarhaddon, 29.

page 104 note 4 A.A.A. XX, 1933, No. 104 Google Scholar.

page 104 note 5 Post-Assyrian buildings being outside the scope of this article, must be sought in the four publications of our various expeditions.