Word: nuzi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibit is a, Sumerian head of a warrior in stone, dated about 2500 B. C. Other items in the sculpture and ceramics gallery include stone reliefs from the stairway at Persepolis of about 500 B. C.; and a green terra cotta lion of about 1500 B. C. from Nuzi, one of the earliest known examples of finely developed glaze technique...
...life cycle fully illustrated for the anthropologist, and objects of beauty for the lover of art. Whether it be the reliefs of the Assyrians from Khorsabad, the delicate gold and lapis of the Sumerians at Ur of the Chaldies, or the subtle modeled terra cotta of the Houri at Nuzi does not matter much. Each has its distinct and separate appeal...
...site of the excavations carried on by Harvard University in conjunction with the American School of Oriental Research is in the northern section of Iraq close to the present city of Kirkuk. This place which for 3500 years has been a deserted mound was once the flourishing city of Nuzi, the center of a community of people both commercially and artistically minded. Here for the past three years excavations have been going on under the respective directorship of Edward Cheira, Robert H. Pfleffer, and R. F. S. Starr, during which time sufficient area has been laid bare to give...
Those interested in pottery as well as those whose interests are purely anthropological will find the many types of household pottery of considerable interest. One quickly senses that the potter of Nuzi had a feeling for his art that was not bounded by the bit of produce he received in exchange for his ware. Certainly he was a master artisan...
...Lyon, Hancock Professor of Bebrew and other Oriental Languages, Emeritus, for copying, classifying, cataloging and studying the cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets found at Nuzi...