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The Excavations At Nimrud (Kalḫu), 1951

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

M. E. L. Mallowan
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The Expedition began its third consecutive season at Nimrud on March 7th, 1951, and continued until the end of April. On an average approximately 200 workmen were employed, considerably more than in the two previous seasons, and this greater effort was correspondingly rewarded. The larger scale on which we were enabled to work was due to the support of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and we wish to take this opportunity of thanking the Trustees for their generosity and the Director, Mr. Francis Henry Taylor, for the interest which he has taken in the Expedition. We are similarly indebted to the friendly co-operation of Mr. Charles Wilkinson who discussed the project with us in England in 1950. The Trustees approved the suggestion that Mr. Kelly Simpson of the Egyptian Department should join us on the dig; we welcomed him as a friend no less than as a valued member of our staff. This association with our American colleagues has thus proved to be a most happy and successful venture.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Spring 1952 , pp. 1 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1952

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page 4 note 1 The height of the vault was 3.2 metres, but it would seem that the chamber was partly underground, a sirdab. It was near here against the city was that Layard found what he described as a vaulted chamber, cf. Nineveh and its Remains, Vol. 11, p. 41Google Scholar. but the bricks of our vault were sun-dried and there was no evidence that it had ever been used as a furnace.

page 4 note 2 Illustrated in Meissner, Babylonien und Assyrien, I Abb. 136Google Scholar, but the reference below the picture is wrong: it should read Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, Vol. 1, 580Google Scholar. Sec also Botta, and Flandin, , Monuments de Ninive, pl. 117Google Scholar.

page 5 note 1 See I.X.N., August 4th, 1951, Fig. 8.

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page 21 note 1 In this connection it is particularly interesting to note that 16,000 napšati (meš) of Calah are included in the list. Mr. Wiseman has explained that these persons would appear to be the original inhabitants who belonged to the old village and had been there before the new settlers arrived. The Assyrian nfs napšati could here be the equivalent of Arabic nefs and in both languages the noun could be appropriately applied to the humble folk tied to the land. These 16,000 souls were probably living on a restricted part of the mound, perhaps at the south-east end and in the outer town.

page 21 note 2 These figures are taken from British Museum Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities? 1922, 33Google Scholar.

page 21 note 3 The figures for the modern population of Aleppo and Damascus are based on a statement by Frankfort, H., Kingship and the Gods, 396, note 23Google Scholar, where tentative computations are made about the population of certain ancient Mesopotamian and Babylonian cities.