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. IV / No. 2

Excavations at Tepe Gawra

THE Joint Expedition of the University Museum and the American Schools of Oriental Research has resumed work at Tepe Gawra […]

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Vol. III / No. 5

Excavations at Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra

THE season at Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra has now closed and, although we have not yet received Dr. Speiser’s […]

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Vol. III / No. 3-4

Development at Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra

A CABLE recently received from Dr. E. A. Speiser reports the finding at Tell Billa of a splendidly colored hæmatite […]

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Vol. II / No. 5

The Tell Billah Expedition

THE painted pottery of the Hurrian period continues to hold the center of interest at Tell Billah. As Dr. Speiser […]

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Vol. II / No. 5

Tepe Gawra: A New Site

IN the spring of 1927, Dr. E. A. Speiser, who was engaged in making an extensive archaeological reconnaissance of Northern […]

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Vol. II / No. 3

The Tell Billah Expedition

THE first reports have been received from Dr. E. A. Speiser, Director of the Expedition at Tell Billah sponsored by […]

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Vol. II / No. 1

New Expeditions

IT is a matter of satisfaction to be able to announce that the Museum’s important excavations at Beisan, Palestine, were […]

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