Nimrud: Palace of Adad Nirari III, 2023
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- I filmed a lot of raw footage during our relatively short field season in the Spring of 2023 and it has taken me a long time to edit it. I then had to decide the order to release videos in. I think it best to give background and overview of excavations before going into individual artifacts. So, I'll start with a video taken rather late in the season when we had largely understood the areas we were digging and revealed many walls and floors, etc.
I worked mostly in the Temple of Ishtar, but our team was working another area as well, the 'Upper Chambers,' more correctly known as the Palace of Adad Nirari III. I asked the dig director, Dr. Michael Danti, to give us a tour of that building since he understands it better than any of us. It has long been a confusing area, though, dug by Layard and Loftus in the 1840s/50s and the old maps were incorrect or misleading.
The first Penn season began to get to grips with the confusion in the first season, Fall of 2022, and more of the building has been revealed in the second season, Spring 2023, under the immediate supervision of Dr. John MacGinnis. There's still a lot to learn, but this video shows what we know at the moment.
00:00 intro and background
01:11 tour outside palace
05:12 tour inside palace
07:59 Layard's upper chambers
10:19 legend of Semiramis 
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Interesting and informative, thanks.
Absolutely Fascinating
Thnaks again for all your work.
Seeing some of this site up-close like this is a real treat. Please dont be afraid of making these videos longer and more in depth. It would be much appreciated.
Also, the destruction of sites across the region by ISIS and the Taliban is legitimately heartbreaking.
Always a pleasure, thank you Dr.
Absolutely love these videos
Fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to record and edit these videos.
Always love when you upload a new video.
Thank you!
Exciting, videos in situ are always the best archeology videos!
Great timing
Really cool! I've been reading Eckart Frahm's book about Assyria, so I actually recognized the name Adad Nirari III!
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Thank you for the amazing work you do and thanks for sharing. Are there any anthropology RUclips channels you could recommend to us?
of course the british museum had to have a piece of this
I'll be watching for more videos, thank you! If you're willing, it would be great to learn how Iraqis are continuing to be involved, or if political/economic realities are just too stressful for their government to allocate resources to archaeology right now?
Iraqis are very much involved. It's difficult for them to raise the large funds that are needed in rebuilding and so a lot of the money for cultural heritage work comes from the international community, but it is largely Iraqi firms and people that do the work.
We work directly with Iraqi archaeologists from the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (an Iraqi archaeologist representative in every trench we dig) and we hire local workers to do most of the digging. In this way we also put money into the local community and the Iraqi government oversees everything we do. All of the artifacts we uncover stay in Iraq and we can only study them there.
That's great!
Great stuff. If you want to give historians of a later period a humourous frisson, add clouds to the wrist of your indicating hand and turn it into a _manus dei._
First question: what is a "lustration slab"? From context on the second one, it sounds like it's a place for bathing, comparable to the floor of a shower stall?
We don't really know how the lustration slab was used. Since the depression in the middle doesn't go through like a drain should, it's hard to see it as a shower stall. But they may have used heated water here to 'purify' people or things in a brief cleansing.
@@artifactuallyspeaking Ah. Getting some "birds are lizard-hipped dinosaurs" vibes.
It always makes me curious how a city or large building complex comes to be abandoned and buried as is, with people still living in the area. I just think of today. If a building is condemned, it's brought down, the land leveled, and something built in its place. I mean it's wonderful and fascinating that so much is there to be discovered. I'm very glad of it. But I just always wonder how it came to be that it's there to be uncovered.
Leveling and rebuilding did happen within active cities in the ancient world, but when an entire site is attacked and burned by an enemy it might be left to decay in place. The Medes and Babylonians destroyed Nimrud and Nineveh in 612bce and, although there may have been a few squatters in the ruins after that, the Neo-Assyrian empire was no more, so their cities were mostly abandoned.
At Ur it seems more to be the lack of water that caused people to abandon their city. As the river moved farther away, it was harder to obtain the water needed and it was better to resettle elsewhere. Conditions for a large city never reappeared there, so the site was covered by the years.
@@artifactuallyspeaking Thanks for responding! Very interesting.
Yer, ~I'm just going to say " hello sweetie". Hello sweetie (smiley face).
Wait, what are the tram rails used for?
We think they are for positioning a hot brazier or water kettle (perhaps moving it from the heat to a place near the lustration slab where hot water can then be used.
Hopefully the damage was minimal,