Tim Clayden

Green Templeton College, University of Oxford · Green Templeton College

A study of the excavated structures at Ur which Woolley identified as domestic and possibly Kassite (or later) in date. Through an examination of the objects excavated in the structures and associated graves (principally pottery, glass and faience vessels, scaraboids and tablets) the housing in area EM is dated to roughly the 13th century b.c. whil...

This paper presents prints of two previously unpublished water colours depicting the excavation of slabs and sculptures found during Layard's excavations at Nimrud in June 1850. Though neither image is signed, an identification of the artist as S.C. Malan is probable. Gadd's (1938) study of Malan's drawings concentrated on his work at Nineveh. This...

A review of the appearance of eyestone sin the literature and archaeological records of ancient Mesopotamia. It shows that they were in use from the late 3rd millennium BCE until the mid-1st millennium BCE. One of the periods of greatest use was that of the Kassite Dynasty (16th to 12th centuries BCE).

Summary This paper presents a review of the building work undertaken by Kurigalzu I and II. In doing so it aims to demonstrate that Kurigalzu I (x–1375 B.C.) was responsible for one of the most extensive and widespread building programmes for which evidence has survived in Babylonia. It also highlights the unequivocal evidence that it was Kurigalzu...

Ellis (1967) identified a discrete group of Mesopotamian foundation deposits, the central identifying feature in each being a clay figurine of Papsukkal = Ninshubur wearing a horned cap and long robe and holding a staff. The earliest example of such an assemblage noted by Ellis (1967, 52 Table I No. 1, 53) was the collection of objects found embedd...

After over half a century systematic excavation is once again underway at Kish. A team of Japanese archaeologists led by Prof. Hideo Fujii has reopened the archaeological investigation of this large ancient site where many periods of occupation are to be found. This study focuses on only a small fragment of the history of settlement at Kish, drawin...