Research Catalog

Title

Regional history and the coin finds from Assur from the Achaemenids to the nineteenth century = Regionale Geschichte und Münzfunde aus Assur von der Zeit der Achämeniden bis zum neunzehnten Jahrhundert / Stefan Heidemann, Kevin Butcher.

Author

Heidemann, Stefan

Publication

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Butcher, Kevin

Description

xiv, 128 pages, 31 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps; 35 cm

Summary

In July 1914, the excavation of one of the most significant capitals in human history, Assur, ended successfully. After a division of finds, the objects were dispatched to Berlin on the eve of the First World War. Assur is currently the most important reference site for coin finds in northern Iraq. They constitute an independent source for the history of the settlement, the Tigris region, and for coin circulation after the fall of the Assyrian empire in 614 BC, from the Achaemenid to the late Ottoman empire. These coin finds fill an important gap in the history of Assur, whose name in the post-Assyrian period is hardly attested to. For the Arsacid period, the coin finds highlight the surprising permeability of the border from the Roman provinces to Arsacid north-eastern Mesopotamia.0 0With the Sasanian conquest in about 240/1, life in Assur apparently stopped. For the following 1,600 years we can distinguish at least three separate settlement phases, and almost each phase corresponds to changing names for the city. While we do not know what the settlement between the 7th and 8th century was called, in the 12th and 14th centuries it was referred to as al-'Aqr. For this period, we have more literary references to its history, at least compared with the preceding 1,800 years. The coin finds, together with the textual references, allow for an insight into the political and economic development of ?a large village?. For the 17th and 18th centuries, the coins point to a revived settlement, now under the name of Qal'at Shirqat.

Series Statement

• Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 0342-4464 ; 148
• Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Assur. F: Fundgruppen ; Band 8

Uniform Title

• Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft ; 148.
• Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Assur. F, Fundgruppen ; Bd. 8.

Alternative Title

Regionale Geschichte und Münzfunde aus Assur von der Zeit der Achämeniden bis zum neunzehnten Jahrhundert

Subject

• Coin hoards > Iraq > Ashur (Extinct city)
• Ashur (Extinct city) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-81).

Language (note)

• In English and German.

Call Number

JFG 18-22

ISBN

• 9783447107617
• 3447107618

OCLC

975488486

Author

Heidemann, Stefan, author.

Title

Regional history and the coin finds from Assur from the Achaemenids to the nineteenth century = Regionale Geschichte und Münzfunde aus Assur von der Zeit der Achämeniden bis zum neunzehnten Jahrhundert / Stefan Heidemann, Kevin Butcher.

Publisher

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 0342-4464 ; 148

Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Assur. F: Fundgruppen ; Band 8

Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft ; 148.

Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Assur. F, Fundgruppen ; Bd. 8.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-81).

Language

In English and German.

Added Author

Butcher, Kevin, author.

Research Call Number

JFG 18-22