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Many of the volumes on Nimrud, including Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud vols. 1-5 and Ivories from Nimrud 1-6, as well as several of our other publications, were digitised for us by the AHRC-funded Nimrud project.

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Read the full list of  BISI/BSAI fieldwork reports and publications, dating from 1935 to 2012.

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Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud

Title	Author	Year
The Nimrud Wine Lists	J.V. Kinnier Wilson	1972
The Governor’s Palace Archive	J.N. Postgate	1973
The Tablets from Fort Shalmaneser	S. Dalley & J.N. Postgate	1984
Literary Texts from the Temple of Nabû	D.J. Wiseman & J.A. Black	1996
The Nimrud Letters, 1952	H.W.F. Saggs	2001

Ivories from Nimrud

Title	Author	Year
Equestrian Bridle-Harness Ornaments: Catalogue & Plates	J.J. Orchard	1967
Ivories in the Assyrian Style	M.E.L. Mallowan & L.G. Davies	1970
Furniture from SW 7, Fort Shalmaneser	M.E.L. Mallowan & G. Herrmann	1974
Ivories from Room SW 37, Fort Shalmaneser, part I	G. Herrmann	1986
Ivories from Room SW 37, Fort Shalmaneser, part 2	G. Herrmann	1986
The Small Collections from Fort Shalmaneser	G. Herrmann	1992
Ivories from the North West Palace (1845-1992)	G. Herrmann, S. Laidlaw & H. Coffey	2009
Ivories from Rooms SW11/12 and T10 Fort Shalmaneser, parts 1-2	G. Herrmann and S. Laidlaw	2013

Abu Salabikh Excavations

Title	Author	Year
The West Mound Surface Clearance	J.N. Postgate	1983
Graves 1 to 99	H.P. Martin, J. Moon & J.N. Postgate	1985
Catalogue of Early Dynastic Pottery	Jane Moon	1987
The 6G Ash-Tip and its Contents: Cultic and Administrative Discard from the Temple?	A.N. Green	1993

Tell Brak Excavations

Tell Brak Excavations are jointly published with the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

Title	Author	Year
Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol. I: The Mitanni and Old Babylonian Periods	D. Oates, J. Oates, H. McDonald	1998
Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol II: Nagar in The Third Millennium BC	D. Oates, J. Oates, H. McDonald, et al.	2001
Excavations at Tell Brak Vol. IV: Exploring a Regional Centre in Upper Mesopotamia, 1994-1996	Roger Matthews and Wendy Matthews	2003

Samarra Studies

Samarra I: The Historical Topography of Samarra	Alastair Northedge	2008
Archaeological Atlas of Samarra: Samarra Studies II	Alastair Northedge and Derek Kennet	2015

Iraq Archaeological Reports

Title	Author	Editor	Year
Excavations at 'Āna: Qal'a Island	A. Northedge et al.		1988
Excavations at Tell Rubeidheh: an Uruk Village in the Jebel Hamrin	T. Cuyler Young et al.	R.G. Killick	1988
Settlement Development in the North Jazira, Iraq: a Study of the Archaeological Landscape	T.J. Wilkinson & D.J. Tucker		1995
The Excavations at Tell al Rimah: The Pottery	C. Postgate, D. Oates & J. Oates		1997
Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Ancient Near East		J.N. Postgate	2002
Secrets of the Dark Mound: Jemdet Nasr 1926-1928	Roger Matthews		2002

Other Publications

Title	Author	Editor	Year
The Old Babylonian Tablets from Tell al Rimah	S.M. Dalley, C.B.F. Walker and J.D. Hawkins		1976
Fifty Years of Mesopotamian Discovery: The Work of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1932-1982		J. Curtis	1982
The Middle Babylonian Legal and Economic Texts from Ur	O.R. Gurney		1982
Nimrud: An Assyrian Imperial City Revealed	David and Joan Oates		2001
The Published Ivories from Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud	G. Herrmann, S. Laidlaw & H. Coffey		2004
Studies in the Ancient History of Northern Iraq (reprint)	David Oates		2005
Languages of Iraq: Ancient and Modern		Nicholas Postgate	2007
New Light on Nimrud: Proceedings of the Nimrud Conference 11th-13th March 2002		J.E. Curtis, H. McCall, D. Collon and L. al-Gailani Werr	2008
Once There Was a Place: Settlement Archaeology at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2002	Augusta McMahon with Carlo Colantoni, Julia Frane and Arkadiusz Soltysiak		2010
Your Praise is Sweet - A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends		Heather D. Baker, Eleanor Robson and Gábor Zólyomi	2011