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Tell Mohammed Arab The Ninevite 5 Sounding

Robert Killick, Dianna Bolt, Michael Roaf

Archaeology of Ancient Iraq 3

This volume is the primary record of the excavation, between 1983 and 1985, of the Ninevite 5 Sounding at Tell Mohammed Arab in northern Iraq.
The preliminary reports on Tell Mohammed Arab outlined a sequence for the first half of the third millennium BC in northern Iraq and north-eastern Syria which has subsequently been widely accepted.
The book presents the stratigraphic and architectural evidence, the small finds, and a detailed analysis of the development of the pottery from the Ninevite 5 Sounding. A final chapter examining the implications of the results in a wider context proposes a revised periodisation and chronology for the period and concludes that the definition of a ‘Ninevite 5 culture’ is not possible because it changed radically over time.

Publication date: 11 November 2025

ISBN 978-1-910169-05-6 Hardback. xii +250 pp., 42 colour figures, 58 b/w, 94 plates. £35

Available from http://www.iraqarchaeology.org