Excavations in the district of al-Qadi: the archaeological discoveries 92-93.
Abstract
Khirbet al-Qadhi is located 5 km north of Nineveh and on a rocky and gravel hill overlooking the eastern bank of the Tigris River and passes next to it on the eastern side, Wadi al-Hazzazi, which forms a natural depression, and Khirbet al-Qadhi is considered the middle of the road between the city of Nineveh and the city of Terbissou (Sherif Khan), the city of Wali The era in the modern Assyrian era, these two cities has been mentioned, and if excavations have been carried out in them by foreign and national missions since the middle of the last century, Khirbet al-Qadhi did not attract the attention of the first prospectors, due to the presence of a modern village near it, as well as the absence of ancient buildings or references to them in the cuneiform texts discovered in During that period, and in the thirties of this century, the Department of Antiquities conducted archaeological surveys in the area between Nineveh and Tripuso, and an archaeological site was installed in the name of Khirbet al-Qadi, and it was announced in the Official Gazette numbered 1219 dated 7/31/1939 and the number was given in sequence in the archive of Mosul sites (69 / 35). The first step that the Excavation Commission took was to investigate the area that was reported about, which is located very close to the bottom of Wadi al-Kharazi within Khirbet al-Qadiyah, as it was found that the building is a modern Assyrian cemetery similar to other Assyrian tombs discovered in both Assyria and Kalakh Nimrod) and Hamidat in terms of planning, construction, architectural features and archaeological sites As for the next step, it is surveying in general, and especially the valleys shoulders, where some points were indicated in which archaeological materials are suspected. Multiple points were opened at the bottom of the valley, and the archaeological discoveries were extremely important, especially the cemetery and the graves and the pottery and metal foundations they contained. To the north of the tomb were found courses of Hallan stone constructed in the form of a dam that crosses the valley and among these courses were pieces of yellow Hilan stone It was found after reconstructing them together because they form two bulls and on them cuneiform inscriptions (which will be studied in a detailed research), the archaeological discoveries were photographed locally and in laboratory, and the cuneiform inscriptions engraved on the bulls were reproduced at the site and a preliminary translation was prepared for that. This research is the detailed study of the structural, pottery and mineral archaeological discoveries.