Excavations at Tell Brak: Volume 2 - Nagar in the 3rd Millennium BC

Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, was one of the most important cities in northern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC and a focus of long-distance trade. It was also, for about a century, a provincial capital of the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon of Agade. This is the second of four volumes on the 1976-93 excavations at Tell Brak. The major Akkadian buildings at Tell Brak are the first well-preserved examples to be discovered at any site, and include a great ceremonial complex and a unique caravanserai that housed the donkey caravans bringing metals from Anatolia. During the ritual closure of these buildings, beautiful silver jewellery was deposited along with numerous copper/bronze tools and the skeletons of some of the caravan donkeys. Specialist reports provide detailed historical, geomorphological, ceramic, faunal, botanical, microstratigraphic and other data.

Summary

Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, was one of the most important cities in northern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC and a focus of long-distance trade. It was also, for about a century, a provincial capital of the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon of Agade. This is the second of four volumes on the 1976-93 excavations at Tell Brak.

Product details

• Authors: Helen McDonald, David Oates, Joan Oates
• Assisted by: Helen McDonald (Editor), David Oates (Editor), Joan Oates (Editor)
• Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2001
• EAN: 9780951942093
• ISBN: 978-0-9519420-9-3
• No. of pages: 643
• Dimensions: 217 mm x 287 mm x 42 mm
• Weight: 2377 g
• Series: McDonald Institute Monographs; Excavations at Tell Brak; McDonald Institute Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity