Floor Plan of Sargon II's Palace at Khorsabad

1936 AD
Paper
Paris
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Oriental Institute Museum

Artifact Description

Floor Plan of Sargon II's Palace at Khorsabad

This is a floor plan of King Sargon II's palace at Khorsabad. It shows the foundations of the palace buildings as they would have been during the time of Sargon's reign (721-705 BC). The blackened portions of the plan indicate areas excavated by the Iraq Expedition of the Oriental Institute. The plan itself was included as the frontispiece to the final report of the excavation, published in 1936. It is based, in part, on an earlier plan produced by the French archaeologist, Victor Place.

Multimedia

The Mystery of Archaeology
Dr. Gil Stein, Director of the Oriental Institute, talks about archaeology in this video.

The Ancient City of Khorsabad
Dr. Gil Stein, Director of the Oriental Institute, discusses the importance of the ancient capital city of Khorsabad in this video.

Suggested Readings

Leacroft, Helen and Richard. The Buildings of Ancient Mesopotamia. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1974.

Parpola, Simo. Letters from Assyria and the West: The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1987.

Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn. Archaeology: Theory, Methods, and Practice. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991.

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