[First posted in AWOL 9 April 2013, updated February 5 2014 (Ivories from Nimrud and other volumes added]
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq Books Online
At the moment, the following 17 books are available for download:
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq Books Online
Seventeen of BISI's books are now available for free download from these pages. All volumes on Nimrud, including Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud vols. 1-5 and Ivories from Nimrud 1-5, as well as other publications, were digitised for us by the AHRC-funded Nimrud project.
Eventually, all new BISI publications will be made available here as pdfs for free download. Our full backlist of publications will also be posted here as pdfs as time permits.
Read the full list of BISI/BSAI fieldwork reports and publications, dating from 1935 - 2012.
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At the moment, the following 17 books are available for download:
Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud
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
Other Publications
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 Ivories from the North West Palace (1845-1992) G. Herrmann, S. Laidlaw & H. Coffey 2009
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 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 Your Praise is Sweet - A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends Heather D. Baker, Eleanor Robson and Gábor Zólyomi 2011
And see also Excavations at Tell Brak in AMAR