Tell Billa & Tepe Gawra Expeditions

Tepe Gawra is located about 18 miles northeast of Mosul in the piedmont zone adjoining the Assyrian Plains in northeastern Iraq. It lies between the Tigris River and the first foothills of the Zagros Mountains, by the entrance to one of the few historically documented passes onto the Iranian plateau through the Jebel Maqlub. Gawra was certainly a transport link in trade for lapis lazuli and for other exotic goods from the Zagros highlands and from the Upper Tigris basin into Mesopotamia proper.

Vol. VI / No. 6

By: E. A. S.

The Oldest Acropolis

TEPE Gawra has been recognized, since its discovery ten years ago, as a site of fundamental importance for the cultural […]

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Vol. VI / No. 4

By: C. B.

The Round House at Gawra

ACTIVE work of the Expedition to Tepe Gawra, supported jointly by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Museum, […]

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Vol. VI / No. 3

By: C. B.

Gawra XII

THE Museum’s Expedition to Tepe Gawra left Philadelphia early in September. During the last field season the discovery of Level […]

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Vol. VI / No. 1

By: C. B.

Obsidian Vessels from Tepe Gawra

INTRUSIVE in Level 11 of the Great Mound were discovered last year a number of Libn tombs described from time […]

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Vol. V / No. 6

By: J. J.

The Great Mound

IN the sixth millennium before Christ a migrating horde swept from the east over India, Persia and Mesopotamia. Many more […]

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Vol. V / No. 5

Tepe Gawra Excavations

THE Joint Expedition of the University Museum and the American Schools of Oriental Research now working at Tepe Gawra is […]

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Vol. V / No. 4

Assyrian Expedition

A BRIEF informal report just received from Mr. Bache at Tepe Gawra announces an interesting find, in an undisturbed mud-brick […]

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Vol. IV / No. 4

The Assyrian Expedition

THE main feature of the recent season at Tell Billa, according to Mr. Charles Bache’s final report, was a street […]

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Vol. IV / No. 3

The Assyrian Expedition

THE latest report from Mr. Charles Bache, the field director, tells of activity in the southwest corner of the mound […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

Excavations at Tell Billa

WITH only a small force at Tell Billa, progress has been slow, but two finds are of no little importance. […]

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