Archaeology from Every Angle brings together a wide range of scholars whose work has been influenced by Richard Zettler's career in Near Eastern archaeology. The volume includes work from various archaeological specialties including ceramics, small finds, seal impressions, mortuary practice, social identity, and zooarchaeology. Several contributors provide broader overviews of sites, architecture, and landscape features. Chronologically, this book spans the 5th millennium BCE through the Iron Age in the Near East. The breadth of the contributions to this book speak to the lasting and far-reaching impact Zettler has had on the field. Archaeology from Every Angle does what it says and brings together disparate topics and scholars to form a volume in honor of an archaeologist with a long and storied career.



edited by Katherine Blanchard, Yelena Rakic and Paul Zimmerman



List of Figures List of tables Editors' preface Biography Bibliography: Richard Zettler 1 From Sumerian and Akkadian Proverbs to Arabic: Thematic Continuity Ali Y. Aljuboori 2 Polychrome Glazed Pottery and Gray Ware from Early 1st-Millennium BCE Nippur James A. Armstrong 3 On Colors, Shapes, and Size: The Means of Emergent Social Personae in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia Aubrey Baadsgaard 4 Early Kassites East of the Tigris Tim Clayden 5 Our Minds in the Gutter: New Evidence on Early Iron Age Mudjesir from the Rowanduz Archaeological Program, Iraqi Kurdistan Michael D. Danti and Darren P. Ashby 6 Defining the Sacred in the Houses at Khafajah Jean M. Evans 7 The Isin-Larsa Sin Temple at Khafajah Relocated McGuire Gibson 8 Money in Mesopotamia Revisited: An Early Dynastic Silver Hoard from Khafajah W.B. Hafford 9 Jerusalem and Samaria: A Tale of Two Cities Jill Citron Katz 10 Grave M-134 at Ziyaret Tepe: An "Uncommon" Commoner's Burial of the Late Assyrian Period Timothy Matney 11 Going to Brak in a Handbasket: Container Sealings and Urban Production Modes in 4th Millennium BCE Northern Mesopotamia Augusta McMahon 12 Perspectives on Developments in the Piedmont of Northeastern Iraq on the Southeastern Anatolian Hill Country in the 5th Millennium BCE Mitchell S Rothman 13 What's the Cost?: Comparative Analysis of Water and Land Transportation in 3rd Millennium BCE Babylonia Marshall W. Schurtz 14 Change of Scene: From Communal Feast to Individualized Ceremony Claudia E. Suter 15 Off by a Nose: The Adoption of Lip Rings for Equine Control Jill A. Weber 16 The Middle and Late Uruk Levels in the Inanna Temple Excavations at Nippur. A Preliminary Report Karen L. Wilson 17 Terracotta Cuboid Incense Burners and their Aromatics as Evidence for the "Seafaring Merchants of Ur" in the 1st Millennium BCE William Gerad Zimmerle