The British Museum’s Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855

Geoffrey Turner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

816 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-43536-0 (ISBN)

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Geoffrey Turner's definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations by the British Museum at the Assyrian site of Nineveh documents the complete history of these excavations and provides detailed reconstructions of the architecture and sculpture in the palace of Sennacherib.

Geoffrey Turner has written the definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations sponsored by the British Museum at the ancient Assyrian site of Nineveh in Iraq. Based on exhaustive analysis of unpublished archives combined with his own extensive knowledge of Assyrian architecture, Turner’s work documents the complete history of these excavations. Turner also draws on the archives and numerous additional sources to provide a detailed reconstruction of the architecture and relief sculpture in the building that was the primary focus of these excavations, the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib (ruled 705-681 BC). The result constitutes the final report both on the results of these excavations and on the original appearance of one of the ancient world’s most famous buildings.

Geoffrey Turner, M.Phil. (1967), London University, was a specialist in ancient Assyrian architecture with publications including “The State Apartments of Late Assyrian Palaces” (Iraq 32, 1970) and architecture chapters in the British Museum books on the Ashurbanipal and Sennacherib palaces. John Malcolm Russell, Ph.D. (1985), University of Pennsylvania, specializes in the art and architecture of the Assyrian empire. His publications include The Final Sack of Nineveh: The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of Sennacherib’s Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq (Yale, 1998).

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations with Image Credits

List of Tables

Chapter Abstracts

The Sources for Layard’s Excavations at Nineveh

1 Layard’s First Expedition to Assyria, October 1845–June 1847

2 Layard’s Second Expedition, First Phase, September 1849–March 1850

3 Layard’s Second Expedition, Second Phase, May–July 1850

4 Layard’s Second Expedition, Third Phase, August–October 1850

5 Layard’s Second Expedition, Fourth Phase, October 1850–April 1851

6 The Southwest Terrace Wing, Chambers QQ–UU and ZZ, Rooms LI–LIX

7 Kuyunjik, May 1851–March 1855

Epilogue

Colour Plates

Plans

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 115
Mitarbeit	Sonstige Mitarbeit: Petra Boekstal
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	2830 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
ISBN-10	90-04-43536-0 / 9004435360
ISBN-13	978-90-04-43536-0 / 9789004435360
Zustand	Neuware