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Excavations at Tell Brak, 1978–81

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

David Oates
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A summary report on the last three seasons at Tell Brak presents an opportunity for both my colleagues and myself to offer a tribute to our President, Professor Seton Lloyd, in the year of his eightieth birthday. May he long remain the doyen of Near Eastern archaeologists.

It is a pleasure also to express my gratitude to the institutions which have generously contributed to the cost of the excavations, the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, the British Academy, the British Museum, and the C. H. W. Johns and Crowther-Beynon funds of Cambridge University. The Director-General of Antiquities and Museums, his staff in Damascus and Aleppo, and his representatives in the field were unfailing in their friendly support and advice. Any credit for the success of our operations must also go in large measure to the staff of the expedition, whom I thank most warmly for their energy and loyalty. They were:

Assistant Directors: Dr. T. A. Holland (1978, 1980) and Mr. David Jeffreys (1981).

Site supervisors: Dr. John Curtis (also registrar); Mr. Peter Dorrell (also photographer); Mr. David Hawkins (also epigraphist and registrar); Dr. Ismail Hijara; Dr. Jonathan Hodgkin; Dr. Alastair Marshall (also surveyor); Mr. Thomas Oates; Dr. Walid Yasin al-Tikriti; Mr. Andrew Tomlinson; Mr. Jonathan Tubb.

Conservators: Mr. James Black; Mrs. Cathy Tubb.

Pottery recording: Dr. Kate Fielden; Dr. Joan Oates (also registrar, photographer); Miss Jenny Oates; Miss Susan Oates.

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IRAQ , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1982 , pp. 187 - 204
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1982

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