Founded in 1932 as a memorial to Gertrude Bell, The British Institute for the Study of Iraq does not at present have an office in Iraq, but continues to promote the study of Iraq’s archaeology from outside its borders; it is currently sponsoring fieldwork in Mesopotamian Syria and in the Gulf. Its publications, including notable series on Nimrud and Abu Salabikh, are distributed by Oxbow. BSAI members receive a 20% discount on all publications – except those already reduced. Please contact us for details.
Volume VI - Documents from the Nabu Temple and from private houses on the citadel
Edited by S Herbordt, R Mattila, B Parker, J N Postgate and D J Wiseman
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9780903472340
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: British Institute for the Study of Iraq
340 Pages
This penultimate volume of CTN provides an up-to-date edition and commentary on two major archives from the Kalhu acropolis, from the field seasons of 1953-1956: the business documents (mostly grain loans on triangular dockets) and a few administrative texts from the Nabu Temple (Part I: texts Nos.
This is the first fundamentally new work to come out in half a century on one of the world's most famous Islamic archaeological sites: Samarra, in Iraq.
The late 4th millennium in South Mesopotamia is universally known as the Uruk Period because it is at Uruk that the German excavations have exposed the most remarkable manifestations of this complex society.
Ivories from Rooms SW11/12 and T10 Fort Shalmaneser
by Georgina Hermann and Stuart Laidlaw
Price: $180.00
ISBN: 9780903472296
Pub Date: 2013-05-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: British Institute for the Study of Iraq
676 Pages
The Lost Art of the Phoenicians Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands were found, many of which have already been published inIvories from Nimrud I-V, while VI recorded the outstanding pieces from the North West Palace.
A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends
Edited by Heather D. Baker, Eleanor Robson and Gabor Zolyomi
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9780903472289
Pub Date: 2010-06-25
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: British Institute for the Study of Iraq
472 Pages
This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase zà-mí-zu dug-ga-àm 'Your praise is sweet' is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature.
In 1952 in one wing of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Max Mallowan excavated an archive room containing royal correspondence from the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II of Assyria.
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Founded in 1932 as a memorial to Gertrude Bell, The British Institute for the Study of Iraq does not at present have an office in Iraq, but continues to promote the study of Iraq’s archaeology from outside its borders; it is currently sponsoring fieldwork in Mesopotamian Syria and in the Gulf. Its publications, including notable series on Nimrud and Abu Salabikh, are distributed by Oxbow. BSAI members receive a 20% discount on all publications – except those already reduced. Please contact us for details. 
