Die Wiederaufnahme der Ausgrabungen in Assur 2023: erste Ergebnisse aus der Neustadt

Radner, Karen ; Kreppner, Florian Janoscha; Altaweel, Mark; Deckers, Katleen; Hinterhuber, Veronica; Richter, Jana; Rohde, Jens; Sarkady, Claudia und Squitieri, Andrea (November 2024): Die Wiederaufnahme der Ausgrabungen in Assur 2023: erste Ergebnisse aus der Neustadt. In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Bd. 156: S. 19-47

Abstract

This contribution presents the preliminary results of the excavations un- dertaken in the New Town of Assur in February and March 2023, in the area directly to the west of the trench “New Town 4” excavated by the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in 2002. A large vaulted chamber tomb covering a surface of 46 square metres dates to the first centuries AD and cuts into the remains of Building A, which was abandoned in the second century BC. Underneath lies the Assyrian-period Building B whose occupation came to an end in the late 7th century BC. A sounding down to the virgin soil produced pottery fragments of well-known Assyrian types from the 13th century BC, indicating that the settlement history of this part of Assur reaches back to the mid-second millennium BC. In total, an area of 120 square metres was investigated and yielded a stratigraphic sequence from the site surface (162.97 m above sea level) to the virgin soil (159.08 m above sea level), with 17 radiocarbon dates and a range of diagnostic and epigraphic finds providing key chronological information.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: Assur (Iraq) archaeology Seleucid period Neo-Assyrian period Middle Assyrian period Parthian period
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar > Alte Geschichte
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie ; 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 950 Geschichte Asiens
• ISSN: 0342-118X
• Sprache: Englisch
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - RA 1138/3-1