Bibliographical information (Tell Brak & related matters)

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Al-Gailani Werr, L., et al. (ed.)
2002      Of Pots and Plans: Papers Presented to David Oates. London: NABU Publications.

Amiran, Ruth B. K.
1956       A Seal from Brak. Iraq 18: 57-59.

Archi, A.
1998     The Regional State of Nagar According to the Texts of Ebla. In About Subartu:
             Studies Devoted to Upper Mesopotamia: Culture, Society, Image, ed.
             M. Lebeau, pp. 1-15. Subartu 4(2). Turnhout: Brepols.

Badre, L.
1980    Les figurines anthropomorphes en terre cuite a l'Age du Bronze en
            Syrie. Bibliotheque Archeologique et Historique 103. Paris: Geuthner.

Bowman, S. G. E, and J. C. Ambers,
1989      Radiocarbon Dates for Tell Brak. 1987. Iraq 51: 213-216.

Catagnoti, Amalia
1997       Les listes des HUB.(KI) dans les textes administratifs d'Ebla et l'onomastique de Nagar. MARI 8: 563-596.

Catagnoti, Amalia and Marco Bonechi
1992      Le volcan Kawkab, Nagar et problemes connexes  N.A.B.U.:  Nouvelles Assyriolgiques Breves et Utilitaires

Christie Mallowan, Agatha
1977      Come, Tell Me How You Live. New York: Pocket Books. (Originally published in 1946)

Clutton-Brock, Juliet
1989      A Dog and a Donkey Excavated at Tell Brak.  Iraq 51:  217-224.

Clutton-Brock, Juliet and Sophie Davies
1993      More Donkeys from Tell Brak. Iraq 55: 209-221.

Eidem, Jesper
1991      Jakun-Assar (?) at Tell Brak. N.A.B.U.:  Nouvelles Assyriologiques Breves et Utilitaires 1991. ???

Eidem Jesper and D. Warburton
1996      In the Land of Nagar: A Survey Around Tell Brak. Iraq 58: 51-64.

Eiland, M.L.
1998/9  Ceramic replications at Tell Brak, Syria Special Issue: "Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology:  From Sardinia to Iraq.  Papers Presented at the 1997 ASOR Annual Meeting:"  Newsletter of the Department of Pottery Technology University of Leiden 16-17: 69-84.

Embeling G,  J. Cheng, Th. E., H. Pittman, T. B. B. Skuldboel, J. Weber J, and H. T. Wright,
1999      Excavations at Tell Brak 1998: Preliminary Report. Iraq 61: 1-41.

Emberling, Geoff and  Helen McDonald
2002      Recent finds from the northern Mesopotamian city of Tell Brak.  Antiquity 76: 949–50
2003      Excavations at Tell Brak 2001-2002: Preliminary report.  Iraq 65: 1-66.

Finkel, Irving
1985      Inscriptions from Tell Brak 1984. Iraq 47: 187-201.
1988      Inscriptions from Tell Brak 1985. Iraq 50: 83-86.

Fielden, Kate
1981      A Late Uruk Pottery Group from Tell Brak, 1978. Iraq 43: 157-166

Gadd, C. J.
1940      Tablets from Chagar Bazar and Tall Brak, 1937-38. Iraq 7: 22-66.

Guichard, Michael
1994      Au pays de la Dame de Nagar. Pp. 235-272 in Florilegium Marianum I:  Recueil d'etudes a  la memoire de Maurice Birot. Paris: SEPOA.
1997       Zimri-Lim a Nagar. MARI 8: 329-337.

Illingworth, N. J. J.
1988        Inscriptions from Tell Brak 1986. Iraq 50: 87-108.

Jasim, S., and Oates, J.
1986        Early Tokens and Tablets in Mesopotamia: New Information from Tell Abada and Tell Brak. World Archaeology 17: 348-362.

Loretz, Oswald.
1969       Texte aus Chagar Bazar und Tell Brak. Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Bd. 3, T. 1 Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker.

Mallowan, M. E. L.
1947      Excavations at Brak and Chagar Bazar. Iraq 9: 1-259.
1977      Mallowan's Memoirs. London: Collins.

Matthews, Donald M.
1992        Early Bronze Age Glyptic from Tell Brak. British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology Newsletter 5: 9-12.
1997        The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak: Cylinder Seals of Third Millennium Syria. Orbis biblicus et orientalis 15. Fribourg University Press/Göttingen : Vandenhoeck  & Ruprecht, 1997.

Matthews, D. M.
1991        Tell Brak 1990: The Glyptic. Iraq 53: 147-157.
1997        The Early Dynastic--Akkadian Transition. Part I: When Did the Akkadian Period
Begin?.  Iraq 69: 1-7.
1997        The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak. Cylinder Seals of Third Millennium Syria. OBO
Series Archaeologica 15.

Matthews, D.M., ed., with contributions by Jeremy Black, Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Murray Eiland, Candida Felli, Nicholas Jackson, Deborah Jaques, Helen McDonald, Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Caroline Steele & Wim Van Neer
2003         Excavations at Tell Brak - Vol. 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994-1996.  London : British School of Archaeology in Iraq/Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Matthews D.and J. Eidem.
1993        Tell Brak and Nagar. Iraq 55: 201-207.

Oates, David
1982        Excavations at Tell Brak 1978-81. Iraq 44: 187-204.
1982        Recent Excavations In Northern Mesopotamia: Tell Al-Rimah and Tell Brak, BSMS
4: 7-23.
1982        Tell Brak. Pp. 62-71 in J. Curtis ed., Fifty Years of Mesopotamian Discovery. London.
1985        Excavations at Tell Brak 1983-84. Iraq 47: 159-173.
1987        Excavations at Tell Brak 1985-86,. Iraq 49: 175-191.
1989/90   Tell Brak, Archiv für Orientforschung 36-37: 227-232.

Oates, David and Joan Oates
1989        Akkadian Buildings at Tell Brak. Iraq 51: 193-211.
1990        Tell Brak. L'empire akkadien. Les dossiers de l'archéologie 155: 24-29.
1991        Excavations at Tell Brak 1990-91. Iraq 53: 127-145.
1991        A Human-headed Bull Statue from Tell Brak. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1: 131-135.
1993        Excavations at Tell Brak 1992-93, Iraq 55: 155-199.
1993        Tell Brak.  Pp. 163-168 in O. Rouault and M. G. Masetti-Rouault eds., L'Eufrate e il tempo, Milan.
1993        Excavations at Tell Brak, NE Syria, 1992. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 3: 137-140.
1994        Brak. American Journal of Archaeology 98: 119-120.
1994        Tell Brak: A Stratigarphic Summary, 1976-1993. Iraq 56: 167-176.
1995        Tell Brak: storia e monumenti dell'antica Nagar.  Pp. 54-61 in P. Matthiae, F. Pinnockand  G.
Scandone Matthiae eds., Ebla. Alle origini della civiltà urbana. Trent'anni di scavi in Siria dell'Universita di Roma "La Sapienza." Milan: Electa.
2000        Recent Excavations at Tell Brak.  Pp. 91-98 in Olivier Rouault and Markus Wafler, eds., La Djezire et l'Euphrate syriens de la protohistoire a  la fin du IIe millenaire av. J.-C.:  Tendences dans l'interpretation historique des donnees nouvelles.  Subartu 7.  Turnhout: Brepols.
2002      The reattribution of Middle Uruk materials at Tell Brak, in E. Ehrenberg (ed.), Leaving no stones unturned: essays in honor of Donald P. Hansen: 145–54. Winona Lake (IN): Eisenbrauns.

Oates, David, Joan Oates, and Helen McDonald
2002       Excavations at Tell Brak - Vol. 2: Nagar in the Third Millennium BC.  London : British School of Archaeology in Iraq/Cambridge : McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research.

Oates, Joan
1982        Some Late ED III Pottery from Tell Brak. Iraq 44: 205-219.
1985a      Tell Brak and Chronology: The Third Millennium. MARI 4: 137-144.
1985b      Tell Brak. Uruk Pottery from the 1984 Season. Iraq 47: 175-186.
1986        Tell Brak: The Uruk/Early Dynastic Sequence. Pp. 245-273 in U. Finkbeiner and W. Röllig eds.,
Gemdat Nasr. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.
1987        A Note on Ubaid and Mitanni Pottery from Tell Brak.  Iraq 49: 193-198.
1990        Tell Brak in the Fourth and Third Millennia: From Uruk to Ur III. Pp.133-147 in S. Eichler, M.
Wäfler, and D. Warburton eds., Tall al-Hamadiya 2. Symposium: Recent Excavations in the
Upper Khabur Region, Berne, December 9-11, 1986. OBO Series Archaeologica 6,
Freiburg.
1993        An Akkadian Administrative Device from Tell Brak. Pp. 289-305 in M. Frangipane, H. Hauptmann,
M. Liverani, P. Matthiae, and M. Mellink eds., Between the Rivers and Over the
Mountains, Archaeologica Anatolica et Mesopotamica Alba Palmieri Dedicata. Rome.
1993        Il periodo protosiriano o protodinastico.  Pp. 51-53 in O. Rouault and M. G. Masetti-Rouault eds.,
L'Eufrate e il tempo. Milan.
1993        Trade and Power in the Fifth and Fourth Millennia BC: New Evidence from
Northern Mesopotamia. World Archaeology 24: 403-422.

Oates Joan and David Oates
1995        A Further Note on Administration at Tell Brak in the Akkadian Period. Pp. 491-506 in U.
Finkebeiner, R. Dittmann, and H. Hauptmann eds., Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte
Vorderasiens, Festschrift für Rainer Michael Boehmer. Mainz.
1997       An Open Gate: Cities of the Fourth Millennium BC (Tell Brak 1997). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7:  287-297.
1998       Tell Brak 1997.  Pp. 179-182 in Chronique Archéologique en Syrie II, Damascus.

Oates, David, Joan Oates, and Helen McDonald,
1997         Excavations at Tell Brak, I.  London : British School of Archaeology in Iraq/Cambridge : McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research.

Schwartz, Glenn M.
1997        Brak, Tell.  Pp. 355-356 in Meyers, Eric M., ed., The Oxford Encylopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Volume 1. New York: Oxford University Press.

Van Buren, E. Douglas
1948        Excavations at Brak and Chagar Bazar. Orientalia N.S. 17: 248-255.
1949        The Cylinder Seals from Brak. Iraq 11: 59-76.

Wilhelm, Gernot
1991       A Hurrian Letter from Tell Brak. Iraq 53: 159-168.