{"product_id":"excavations-at-tell-brak-david-oates-9780951942093","title":"Excavations at Tell Brak: Volume 2 - Nagar in the 3rd Millennium BC","description":"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 reference to provide the first well-dated corpus of archaeological material in northern Mesopotamia belonging to the second half of the third millennium. The major Akkadian buildings at Tell Brak are the first well-preserved examples to be discovered at any site, and include a great ceremonial complex and a unique caravanserai that housed the donkey caravans bringing metals from Anatolia. During the ritual closure of these buildings beautiful silver jewellery was deposited, along with numerous copper\/bronze tools and the skeletons of some of the caravan donkeys. Specialist reports provide detailed historical, geomorphological, ceramic, faunal, botanical, microstratigraphic and other data.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Oates,Joan Oates,Helen McDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0951942093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780951942093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McDonald Institute for Archaeological Researc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.30h x 8.54w x 1.66d","brand":"David Oates","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453255627007,"sku":"9780951942093","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_81ee7944-c45f-4ac5-b208-49b16038a607.jpg?v=1777299125","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/excavations-at-tell-brak-david-oates-9780951942093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}