05/10/2020
Laith Hussein talks about an important site in central Iraq, called Tell Harmal. This city was a key centre in this kingdom of Eshnunna. Eshnunna was one of the rival kingdoms fighting for supremacy in Iraq about 4000 years ago.
3:06 about the site of Tell Harmal. Where is it? How big is it? When was it excavated? What was its ancient name?
7:54 what ancient texts have been found there?
13:01 how the archaeological remains and texts relate to each other. The production of huge numbers of bricks.
15:54 what language are the texts in? And what do they talk about?
17:36 what do they tell us about life in ancient Iraq?
21:00 any plans for new excavations?
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The article Dr Laith mentioned is: “Bauplanung und Administration in altbabylonischer Zeit: ein Tonbullen-Archiv aus Tell Harmal (Shaduppum)”, in Kaskal 9 (2012), pp. 3-29
A brief report on the 1997-1998 excavations is available in English.
The Iraqi scholars Dr Laith mentions as having worked on tablets from Tell Harmal are as follows:
- Basima Jalil Abed, Unpublished Cuneiform Texts from the Old Babylonian Period in the Iraq Museum. Masters dissertation, Baghdad University (in Arabic). 1998
- Khalid al-A’dami, Some Old Babylonian Letters in the Iraq Museum. PhD dissertation. 1971
- Abdulkarim Abdullah Ahmed, Old Babylonian Loan Contracts in the Iraq Museum from Tell al-Dhiba’i and Tell Harmal. Masters dissertation, Baghdad University (= OBLC). 1964
- Saad Salman Fahad, Cuneiform Texts from the Old Babylonian Period, Diyala Region, Tell Harmal. Masters dissertation, Baghdad University (in Arabic). 1996
- Ahmad Hamid Majeed, Studies of Unpublished Old Babylonian Cuneiform Texts from the Diyala Region, Tell Harmal. Masters dissertation, Baghdad University (in Arabic). 1990
- Ridha al-Hashimi, Some Old Babylonian Purchase Contracts in the Iraqi Museum from Harmal and Dhiba’i (OBPC). Masters dissertation, Baghdad University (in Arabic). 1964
- Menshed Mutlaq Menshed, Unpublished Cuneiform Texts from the Old Babylonian Period, Diyala Region, Tell Harmal. Masters dissertation, Baghdad University (in Arabic). 1997
- Ahmad Kamil Muhammed, Unpublished Old Babylonian Letters in the Iraq Museum. PhD dissertation, Baghdad University (in Arabic). 1996
- Amir Suleiman, A Study of Land Tenure in the Old Babylonian Period with Special Reference to The Diyala Region, Based on Published and Unpublished Texts (= SLTOB). PhD dissertation, University of London. 1966
- Amir Suleiman, Harvest Documents and Loan Contracts from the Old Babylonian Period, Sumer 34/I-II (1978), pp. 130-138