Open Access Journal: Iraq: Journal of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial)

Iraq: Journal of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial)

ISSN: 0021-0889 (Print) 

ISSN: 2053-4744 (Online)

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. 

We are delighted to announce that all articles accepted for publication in Iraq from 13 December 2024 will be ‘open access’; published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online (see the journal’s Open Access Options page for available licence options). We have an OA option for every author: the costs of open access publication will be covered through agreements between the publisher and the author’s institution, payment of APCs from grant or other funds, or else waived entirely, ensuring every author can publish and enjoy the benefits of OA.  

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Volume 86 - December 2024

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Editorial

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• Jana Matuszak, Augusta McMahon, Mark Weeden

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  21 July 2025, p. 1

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Obituary

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• Andrew George, Mark Weeden

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  21 July 2025, pp. 3-5

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• A SET OF SHARED PROVERBS FROM THE CEDAR FOREST TABLET OF THE STANDARD BABYLONIAN GILGAMESH AND THE BOOK OF QOHELET 4, 9-12

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• Yoram Cohen

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  24 February 2025, pp. 7-19

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Select LITERARY TEXTS FROM THE SIPPAR LIBRARY V: A HYMN IN PRAISE OF BABYLON AND THE BABYLONIANS

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• Anmar A. Fadhil, Enrique Jiménez

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  17 March 2025, pp. 21-78

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Select OF CAPTIVE STORM GODS AND CUNNING FOXES: NEW INSIGHTS INTO EARLY SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY, WITH AN EDITION OF NI 12501

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• Jana Matuszak

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  24 February 2025, pp. 79-108

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• Abraham Winitzer

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  24 January 2025, pp. 111-125

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Select ORALITY, VOICING, AND INTERRUPTION IN BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE

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• Martin Worthington

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  24 February 2025, pp. 127-152

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Select EN-ḪEDU-ANA: THE BIRTH OF LITERATURE THROUGH THE GODDESS

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• Annette Zgoll

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  17 March 2025, pp. 153-179

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Select QUATRE FRAGMENTS LITURGIQUES SUMÉRIENS DU MUSÉE DE BIRMINGHAM. SECONDE PARTIE

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• Antoine Cavigneaux

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  24 February 2025, pp. 181-192

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Select PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE RURAL LANDSCAPES OF IRON AGE IMPERIAL MESOPOTAMIA PROJECT’S 2022–2023 SEASONS AT QACH RRESH (KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ)

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• Petra M. Creamer, Kyra Kaercher, Glynnis Maynard, Nader Babakr, Ahmad Jodat, Elise J. Laugier, Laurel Poolman, Lucas Proctor, Jennifer Swerida, Parker Zane, Sophie Vo

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  27 January 2025, pp. 193-225

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Select THE URUK BEVEL-RIM BOWL: NEW INSIGHTS ON TECHNOLOGY, MULTI-FUNCTION AND DISPERSAL

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• Jill Goulder

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  24 January 2025, pp. 227-241

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Select NEUE ALTBABYLONISCHE TEXTE AUS ŠADUPPÛM (TALL ḤARMAL)

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• Laith Majeed Hussein

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  24 January 2025, pp. 243-256

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Select THE THIRD MILLENNIUM B.C.E. POTTERY SEQUENCE OF SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA: POTTERY CHRONOLOGY AS SEEN FROM TELL ZURGHUL/NIGIN, MOUND A

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• Davide Nadali, Luca Volpi

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  24 February 2025, pp. 257-295

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Select CENTRALIZED URBAN PLANNING AND ECONOMIC SEGREGATION: WEALTH INEQUALITY AT TELL ASMAR AND KHAFAJAH, MESOPOTAMIA

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• Yoko Nishimura

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  16 April 2025, pp. 297-318

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Select GIRD-I BEGUM – REPORT ON THE 2022 EXCAVATIONS

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• Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, Nolwen Rol, M. Bianca D’Anna, Hussein Hama Gharib, Clara Abai, Jana Eger, J. Lennard Schönberg, Malinda Tolay, Lisa Wolff-Heger

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  23 January 2025, pp. 319-355

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Select TEXT, CONTEXT, AND IMAGE: TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT THE UBĀNA TARĀṢU GESTURE

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• Ludovico Portuese

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  24 February 2025, pp. 357-378

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