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PHOTOGRAPHS

Site Overview and Excavation Progress


1974 -- General Excavation Progress

Overviews of Specific Trenches

Polish Excavation Team Members


1974 --

General Excavation Progress

The following views of the excavation seem to follow the order of work; however, we were not provided with any descriptions for any of the images. What little is known has been intuited from recognizeable objects or architecture in the scenes.
View showing the start of work of the Polish excavations in the Central Palace area, Nimrud.

Inv. # VE1-74

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View showing the first hint of finding reliefs during the Polish excavations in the Central Palace area, Nimrud.

Inv. # VE2-74

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1976 --

General Excavation Progress

view of the Polish excavations View of the Polish excavations in the Central Palace area, Nimrud; looking southeast across the Shalmaneser Building lamassu (center distance) and Tiglath-pilesar reliefs cache (middle right).

Inv. # VE8-76

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view of the Polish excavations View of the Polish excavations in the Central Palace area, Nimrud; looking southeast across remains of the Late Building and the Shalmaneser Building lamassu (center right).

Inv. # VE1-76

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view of the Polish excavations
View of the Polish excavations in the Central Palace area, Nimrud.

Inv. # VE3-76

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Overviews of Specific Trenches
West Area I cache of reliefs West Area I; cache of reliefs uncovered by the Polish Center.

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West Area I cache of reliefs
West Area I; cache of reliefs uncovered by the Polish Center.

Inv. # VE13-76

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NA9-76, fragments of genius relief Fragments of a relief of a genius (NA9-76; rightmost relief) uncovered by the Polish Center amidst the cache of reliefs from a palace of Tiglath-pileser III.

Inv. # VE32-76

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The Polish Excavation Team
The 1975 Polish excavation team.

Inv. # VE7-75

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1975 team with pottery hoard The Polish excavation team with the pottery hoard uncovered in 1975.
From left to right: R. Sobolewski (architect); J. Meuszynski (director, archaeologist); W. Jerke (photographer); A. Mierzejewski (archaeologist).

Inv. # VE6-75

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Polish excavation team The Polish excavation team leaders (1976) leaning on relief NA9-76.

Inv. # VE31-76

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