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REGIONAL HISTORY AND THE COIN FINDS FROM ASSUR ...

In July 1914  the excavation of one of the most significant capitals in human history  Assur 
ended successfully. After a division of finds  the objects were dispatched to Berlin on the eve
of the First World War. Assur is currently the most important reference site for coin finds in
northern Iraq. They constitute an independent source for the history of the settlement  the
Tigris region  and for coin circulation after the fall of the Assyrian empire in 614 BC  from
the Achaemenid to the late Ottoman empire. These coin finds fill an important gap in the
history of Assur  whose name in the post-Assyrian period is hardly attested to. For the Arsacid
period  the coin finds highlight the surprising permeability of the border from the Roman
provinces to Arsacid north-eastern Mesopotamia. With the Sasanian conquest in about 240 1  life
in Assur apparently stopped. For the following 1 600 years we can distinguish at least three
separate settlement phases  and almost each phase corresponds to changing names for the city.
While we do not know what the settlement between the 7th and 8th century was called  in the
12th and 14th centuries it was referred to as al-'Aqr. For this period  we have more literary
references to its history  at least compared with the preceding 1 800 years. The coin finds 
together with the textual references  allow for an insight into the political and economic
development of a large village. For the 17th and 18th centuries  the coins point to a revived
settlement  now under the name of Qal'at Shirqat.

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