Richard F.S. Starr

      These two volumes offer the publication of the excavation seasons 1927–1931 conducted at Nuzi by the joining mission of the Harvard University, the American Schools of Oriental Research and the University Museum of Philadelphia.
      Volume I is divided into two parts, the former dedicated to the architecture and the latter to the objects.
      The first part is subdivided into eleven chapters, dealing with the following topics: 1) prehistoric period at Kudish Ṣaghīr and Yorgan Tepe; 2) GA.SUR and Early–Nuzi period; 3) architectural elements at Nuzi, displaying the various structures of the town; 4) temples of the Nuzi period (with an insight on post–Nuzi occupation); 5) palace of the Nuzi period (with the related pre– and post–strata); 6) the North–western Ridge of Nuzi; 7) the South–western section of Nuzi; 8) the North–eastern section of Nuzi; 9) Nuzi's city wall and related buildings; 10) Nuzi's suburban dwellings (with the houses of Tehip–Tilla, Shurki–tilla, Shilwi–teshub and Zigi); 11) burials at Nuzi, divided in adult and infant burials.
      The second part consists of four chapters, according to the same chronology displayed in the first part: 1) prehistoric objects; 2) GA.SUR period finds; 3) nuzi period artefacts; 4) Late–Period or doubtful–period materials. All the finds are subdivided into sections on the base of material (including also organic ones).
      Eight appendixes are attached at the end of the first volume: A) chronology (by H.W. Eliot); B) chemical and microscopic examination of the green glazed (by R.J. Gettens); C) Nuzi and Late–Period baked bricks; D) epigraphic evidences of the material culture of the Nuzians (by E.R. Lacheman); E) the later cultures at Yorgan Tepe; F) late cemetery crania (the last two by R.W. Ehrich); G) the pottery from Pit L4 at Yorgan Tepe, of prehistoric and GA.SUR levels (by R.S. Chute); H) the pottery from Kudish Ṣaghīr (by H.W. Eliot).
      Volume II displays plates and plans.

[M. De Pietri – November 2019]