Archaeology Returns to Ur: A New Dialog with Old Houses
More than eighty years after Woolley's departure, the authors have initiated excavations in Mesopotamia's most celebrated residential district, Ur's Area AH. Did private housing change significantly as Ur went from the capital of a bureaucratic empire under its Third Dynasty to a city...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2016
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2016, Volume: 79, Issue: 4, Pages: 246-259 |
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| Summary: | More than eighty years after Woolley's departure, the authors have initiated excavations in Mesopotamia's most celebrated residential district, Ur's Area AH. Did private housing change significantly as Ur went from the capital of a bureaucratic empire under its Third Dynasty to a city state in the Isin-Larsa period? The authors opened four areas, two within Woolley's excavations and two just outside of them. In the former, there was a great deal more Isin-Larsa material to be excavated than Woolley's reports suggested. Architecture north of AH was very well-preserved and offered spaces in which Ur III materials can be accessed easily in coming seasons. The fourth excavation area, to the southwest of Area AH, revealed architecture of a different character, perhaps of the Old Babylonian period, lying at a lower elevation than the nearby “House of Abraham,” suggesting that the Isin-Larsa architecture of AH was built on a hill. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5615/neareastarch.79.4.0246 |