موقع المدينة السومرية أريساكرك ( الشراكي)‎ : دراسة في ضوء النصوص المسمارية

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The invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its aftermath left the archaeological sites of the country unprotected and extremely vulnerable to looting.

Large scale illegal excavations of unprecedented proportions were carried out just before and after the war through vast areas of Iraqi soil, destroying sites and making some of them irrecoverable for archaeological research.

One of the effects of this tragedy has been the appearance on the antiquities market of hundreds of unprovenanced cuneiform tablets purchased by private collectors and institutions.

The dimensions and patterns of the looting, and its relationship to the archaeological periods affected by the attacks of the looters and the kind of objects unearthed, have been well studied by E.

C.

Stone, who wrote that “those sites apt to yield the best cylinder seals (Akkadian), cuneiform tablets (Ur III, Old Babylonian) and early coins (Achaemenid, Parthian) show much more evidence for looting than other periods”(Stone 2008: 135).

A definitive solution to the problem of the identification of Irisaĝrig will only be given by means of new surveys or archaeological excavations.

For the time being, everything seems to point to sites no.

1032 and 1056, and preferably the latter, as the location of the ancient city of Irisaĝrig.