The British Museum's excavations at Nineveh, 1846-1855 / / by Geoffrey Turner ; edited by John Malcolm Russell.

• Superior document: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 115
• VerfasserIn: Turner, Geoffrey
• TeilnehmendeR: Russell, John Malcolm,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 115.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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 Based on exhaustive analysis of unpublished archives combined with his own extensive knowledge of Assyrian architecture, Turner's work documents the complete history of these excavations.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.

Table of Contents

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.