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Finds from Tepe Gawra
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1934 Season at Gawra
Excavation Field Director: Charles Bache


Marble jar from tomb-locus 109.


Obsidian jar from tomb-locus 102.


Gold and electrum objects from two tombs at Tepe Gawra.

The above images were published in BASOR 57 as part of the following report on the 1934 season:

Bache, Charles. 1935. "A Report from Mr. Bache on the Tepe Gawra Expedition," BASOR 57:12-18.

 

1935 Season at Gawra
Excavation Field Director: Charles Bache

Painted vessels from level 12 (Early Uruk period), black on burnished red.

Eye idol (called a 'Cult symbol (?)' in 1936), from level 11 (Early Uruk period).


Drawings of seal impressions (most from level 11) depicting the salugi dog.

The above images were published in BASOR 61 as part of the following report on the 1935 season:

Bache, Charles. 1936. "Report on the Joint Excavation of Tepe Gawra in Assyria," BASOR 61: 5-10.

    
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More information and pictures

Pictures of Tepe Gawra taken by John and Peggy Sanders in the 1970s-1980s are available from a webpage at the Oriental Institute.

Bibliography for Tepe Gawra:

Rothman, Mitchell S. 2002. Tepe Gawra: the Evolution of a Small Prehistoric Center in Northern Iraq. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Rothman, Mitchell S. 2002. "Tepe Gawra: Chronology and Socio-economic change in the foothills of Northern Iraq in the era of state formation," in Postgate, J. N., ed. Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Near East. Wiltshire, UK: British School of Archaeology in Iraq. pp. 49-77.

Tobler, Arthur. 1950. Excavations at Tepe Gawra. Vol. 2. Philadelphia.

Speiser, Ephraim A. 1935. Excavations in Tepe Gawra. Vol. 1. Philadelphia.

Speiser, Ephraim A. 1929. "Preliminary Excavations at Tepe Gawra," Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 9:17-94.

The follwoing short summary reviews some of the problems with the original reports by Speiser:

Rothman, Mitchell S. 1997. "Tepe Gawra," in Meyers, Eric, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Vol. V. Oxford University Press. pp. 183-186.

 
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