IRAQ: The BISI Journal

IRAQ is an academic periodical founded in 1934 and appearing annually. It publishes articles on the history, art, archaeology, religion, economic and social life of Iraq and, to a lesser degree, of the neighbouring countries where they relate to it, from the earliest times to about AD 1750.

IRAQ has been a vehicle especially for the art and archaeology of Mesopotamia and for Assyriology. The British Institute for the Study of Iraq has wider interests than its predecessor, the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Consequently, the editorial board is keen to solicit articles from a greater range of academic fields. We welcome contributions on, for example, aspects of early Islamic, medieval and early Ottoman Iraq.  IRAQ is published by Cambridge University Press.

BISI IRAQ Journal

Current Issue

IRAQ 77 LXXVII (2015)

2015

pp.1-3 Gil J. Stein: Tony Wilkinson (1948–2014)
pp.5-6 Julian Reade: Nicholas Hallam Stuart Kindersley (1939–2015)
pp.7-8 David Hawkins: Open letter to Dominique Collon
pp. 9-39 Daniele Morandi Bonacossi and Marco Iamoni: Landscape and Settlement in the Eastern Upper Iraqi Tigris and Navkur Plains: The Land of Niveveh Archaeological Project, Seasons 2012-2013
pp.41-58 Tim Clayden: Two New Prints of Layard’s Excavations at Nimrud: An Artist at Nimrud and Nineveh
pp.59-74 John Curtis and Nigel Tallis: More Thoughts on the Balawat Gates of Shalmaneser III: The Arrangement of the Bands
pp.75- 106 A.R. George: On Babylonian Lavatories and Sewers
pp.107 -128 Ruth Horry: Assyriology at the Margins; the Case of William St. Chad Boscawen (1855–1913)
pp.129-142 Josué J. Justel: An Unpublished Nuzi-Type Antichretic Loan Contract in The British Museum; with Some Comments on Children in the Kingdom of Arrapḫe, by Daniel Justel
pp.143-157 Barbara A. Porter: Tracing the Acquisition History of Some Old Syrian Popular Style Cylinder Seals
pp.159-172 Nicholas Postgate: The Bread of Aššur
pp.173-202 Julian Edgeworth Reade: Xenophon’s Route through Babylonia and Assyria
pp.203-213 Krisztian Simkó: The Magical Potential of Stones Used for Cylinder Seals: NewManuscripts of the Text Known from BAM 194 VIII’ 9’–14’
pp.215-224 Chikako E. Watanabe: The Symbolic Role of Animals in Babylon: A Contextual Approach to the Lion, the Bull and the Mušḫuššu
pp. 225-234 Federico Zaina: A Radiocarbon Date from Early Dynastic Kish and the Stratigraphy and Chronology of the YWN Sounding at Tell Ingharra
pp.235-236 Mark Altaweel: Some Recent and Current Archaeology in Iraq

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How to Subscribe to IRAQ and Back Issues 

In order to subscribe to the journal IRAQ, you must become a member of BISI. Subscribing members can also access the complete online archive of IRAQ through Cambridge Journals Online

Back numbers of IRAQ 1-50 (I-L), inclusive of supplements and index volumes, are available from the Periodicals Service Company and Schmidt Periodicals GmbH and a full set of IRAQ can be obtained from PSC. Email: [email protected] and [email protected]

Editors

From February 2017 IRAQ is managed by a single Editor-in-Chief and an Editorial Board based around BISI’s Publications Committee. The Editorial Board meets twice a year to oversee and advise the work of the Editor-in-Chief, and reports to the Institute’s Council.

Editorial Board Members

Under the direction of the Editorial Board, all contributions to the journal are peer-reviewed anonymously by members of the board and by selected experts.

If you wish to submit an article to be considered for publication in IRAQ, please follow the Instructions for Contributors on the Cambridge University Press Website.