IW&A Blog

November 26, 2006

Bye

Blog and site are going on indefinite hiatus.

Francis Deblauwe
fdeblauwe [at] gmail [dot] com
(312) 217-7689

# posted by Francis Deblauwe @ 11:42 AM

Site links

• • Introduction & "old" web site
• • Blog
• • Blog archives
• • IW&A Documents
• • Sites looted
• • National Museum losses
• • Relevant web sites
• • Archives of reviewed articles
• • Petitions
• • Satire & humor
• • Professional reactions
• • Editor's online articles

A few web links

• • Lost Treasures from Iraq (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
• • Iraqcrisis (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
• • The Threat to World Heritage in Iraq (Oxford University)
• • Informed Comment (Dr. Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
• • The Guardian, Iraq section
• • The New York Times, Iraq War section
• • The New Yorker, From the Archive: The War in Iraq
• • Iraqi Press Monitor(Institute for War & Peace Reporting)

IW&A Documents series

• 1 - A. Riedlmayer, Yes, the Oil Ministry Was Guarded!, May 7, 2003, updated May 17, 2003
• 2 - D. George, Iraq Museum Policy for Access to the Collection for Study, December 8, 2004
• 3 - J.M. Russell, Notes from Iraq session at AIA meeting in Boston, 1/8/05, January 10, 2005
• 4 - F. Deblauwe, Attending RAI 51. Observations on the 51e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Chicago, July 17-23, 2005, August 5, 2005, last updated September 16, 2005
• 5 - R. Teijgeler, "So Yesterday Was the Burning of Books" — Wartime in Iraq. ..., October 5, 2005
• 6 - F. Deblauwe, Note on John Russell's Lecture 'Recovering Iraq's Past' in St. Louis on November 5, 2005, November 16, 2005
• 7 - An Appeal for the Release of Susanne Osthoff, December 4, 2005, updated December 8, 2005
• 8 - R. Parapetti, Partial Reopening of the Iraq Museum, Work in Progress, March 27, 2006
• 9 - F. Deblauwe, The State of Preservation of the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs at Khinnis/Bavian, May 14, 2006
• 10 - F. Deblauwe, Donny George's Exile and the State of the SBAH, November 11, 2006

Running tally of sites looted and damaged in the course of the Iraq War (no longer updated)

(very preliminary and grossly incomplete list based on the articles listed on this web site; modern name followed by possible variants between square brackets and, if known, by ancient name(s) between parentheses; initial "el-" does not count for alphabeticizing; look up names with and without an initial "Tell") ($ = looted; # = damaged)

1. Abbas el-Kurdi $
2. Abu Shahrain (Eridu) #
3. Abu Skehr $
4. Adr el-Sa'id $
5. 'Ana #
6. Babil (Babylon, Babel) $#
   → Bavian - see Khinnis
7. Birs Nimrud (Borsippa) $
8. Bismayyah (Adab) $
   → Chokha - see Tell Jokha
9. Dahaileh $
10. Dair Mar Elia [St. Elijah's Monastery] #
11. Dhahir [el-Dhaara?] (Dubrum) $
12. Drehem (Puzrish-Dagan) $
13. Fara (Shuruppak) $
14. Farwa $
15. el-Hadr (Hatra) $#
16. Ishan Bakhriyyat (Isin) $
17. Khinnis [Khines, Khuns, Bavian] (Khunusa) #
18. Kirkuk [Kerkük] (Arrapha) #
19. Kuyunjik [Koyunjuk] (Nineveh, Ninua) $
20. el-Meda'in [Madaen, Salman Pak, Sulman Pak] (Ctesiphon, Tisfun) $
21. el-Medinah [Tell el-Meda'in] (Bad-Tibira) $
22. Nimrud (Kalkhu, Calah) $
23. Nuffar (Nippur) $
24. el-Qusair $
    → Salman Pak - see el-Meda'in
25. Samarra (Souma, Sumere, Sumra, Surra Man Ra'a) #
    → St. Elijah's Monastery - see Dair Mar Elia
26. Tal Afar [Telafar] #
27. Tell Abu Antik [Abu Antiq] $
28. Tell Abu Duwari (Mashkan-Shapir) $
29. Tell Ibzeikh (Zabalam) $
30. Tell Jokha [Chokha] (Umma) $
31. Tell el-Lahm [Tal Laham, al-Lham] (Kisiga) $
32. Tell el-Muqayyar (Ur) $
33. Tell el-Namil [Tell Naml/Neml, el-Namel] $ *
34. Tell Senkereh (Larsa) $
35. Tell Shmid [Shmet] $
36. Tell Sifr (Kutalla) $
37. Tell el-Wilayah (Larak) $
38. Telloh (Girsu) $
39. Umm el-Aqarib [Um el-Ajareb, Um Alkarab] $
40. Umm el-Hafriyyat $
41. Umm el-Hashin $
42. Warka (Uruk) $
43. el-Yusufiyyah #

• • ? (subsite of Kish excavated by a Japanese team; possibly Akkad) $
• • Unidentified sites in the Diyala province $
• • Early historic village site near Tell el-Ubaid $
• • Smaller sites a few km from Warka (Uruk) $
• • Fisk June 3, 2003 also mentions "Tukulti, Tel el-Zabul, ... Tel el-Jbeit, Tel el-Dihab and Kulal-Jabr" but I can't identify or place them properly
• • Note: good maps for sites in southern, northwestern and northeastern Iraq can be found at the The threat to world heritage in Iraq site

Archives

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