Excavations at Tell Brak: Volume 2 - Nagar in the 3rd Millennium BC

by David Oates, Helen McDonald, Joan Oates

Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, was one of the most important cities in northern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC and a focus of long-distance trade. It was also, for about a century, a provincial capital of the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon of Agade. This is the second of four volumes on the 1976-93 excavations at Tell Brak. The construction level of Naram-Sin's Palace, discovered by Mallowan in the 1930s, has been used as a point of chronological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0951942093
• ISBN13: 9780951942093
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Researc
• Length: 643 Pages
• Weight: 5.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.5" x 11.3"