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Provenance study of cuneiform tablets housed in Sulaimaniyah Museum and geological survey along the Tigris River

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24401016
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Section海外学術
Research Field Area studies
Research InstitutionOsaka Gakuin University

Principal Investigator

Watanabe Chikako  大阪学院大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (40290233)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) OGUCHI Kazumi  国士舘大学, イラク古代文化研究所, 教授 (90194521)
UCHIDA Etsuo  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (40185020)
KATAYAMA Yoko  東京農業大学, 農学研究科, 教授 (90165415)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) ANMA Ryo  筑波大学, 生命環境系, 講師 (70311595)
TUJI Akihiro  国立科学博物館, 植物研究部, 研究主幹 (40356267)
YAMADA Shigeo  筑波大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 教授 (30323223)
NAKANO Takanori  総合地球環境学研究所, 研究高度化支援センター, 教授 (20155782)
YOKOO Yoriko  同志社大学, 理工学部, 助教 (00334045)
KOIZUMI Tatsundo  国士舘大学, イラク古代文化研究所, 研究員 (80257237)
SHIN Kicheol  総合地球環境学研究所, 研究高度化支援センター, 助教 (50569283)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,930,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥9,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Keywords粘土板 / 胎土分析 / 産地同定 / 地質学調査 / 生物指標 / 国際研究者交流 / イラク / イギリス / イラク:イギリス / クルド自治区 / 化学組成分析 / 珪藻 / スレイマニヤ博物館 / 蛍光X線分析
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Clay tablets were illegally excavated on a large scale at many archaeological sites in southern Iraq and smuggled out of the country in the aftermath of the Iraq War. The Iraqi-Kurdish authorities confiscated and saved many of these stolen tablets, which are now housed in the Sulaymaniyah (Slemani) Museum. Our project included chemical, physical and biological analyses of the material used for the tablets in order to provide data concerning their original provenance. Analysis of microfossils contained in the tablets revealed that the clay was sourced not only from river sediments but also from clay pits. Sediment samples taken from the ancient river bed were also analysed for comparison with the tablet clay.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • 2013 Annual Research Report
  • 2012 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (53 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (3 results) Journal Article (16 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 14 results,  Open Access: 6 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 3 results) Presentation (21 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 8 results) Book (10 results) Remarks (2 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] ユニバーシティ・コレッジ・ロンドン/大英博物館/ダーラム大学(英国)

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] スレイマニヤ博物館(イラク)

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] エール大学(米国)

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Archaeological Investigation at Grd-i Tle in the Ranya Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan2016

    • Author(s)
      Hasegawa, A., Yamada, S. and Ismail, B. B.
    • Journal Title

      Al-Rafidan

      Volume: 37 Pages: 143-151

    • NAID

      120005960781

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The Symbolic role of aminals in Babylon: A contextual approach to the lion, the bull and the mushhusshu2015

    • Author(s)
      Chikako E. Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      Iraq

      Volume: 77 Pages: 215-224

    • DOI

      10.1017/irq.2015.17

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Stones used in the Qalat Said Ahmadan and their sources (Appnendix 1)2015

    • Author(s)
      Anma, R.
    • Journal Title

      Al-Rafidan

      Volume: 36 Pages: 51-53

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Regional differences in the chemical composition of cuneiform tablets2015

    • Author(s)
      Uchida, E., Niikuma, D. and Watanabe, R.
    • Journal Title

      Archaeological Discovery

      Volume: 3 Issue: 04 Pages: 179-207

    • DOI

      10.4236/ad.2015.34015

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Blackening of the surfaces of Mesopotamian clay tablets due to Manganese precipitation2015

    • Author(s)
      Uchida, E. and Watanabe, R.
    • Journal Title

      Archaeological Discovery

      Volume: 2 Issue: 04 Pages: 107-116

    • DOI

      10.4236/ad.2014.24012

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Diatom analysis of cuneiform tablets housed in the British Museum2014

    • Author(s)
      Tuji, A., Marsh, A., Altaweel, M., Watanabe, C. E. and Taylor, J.
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series B, Botany

      Volume: 40 (3) Pages: 101-106

    • NAID

      40020204114

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Environmental fluctuations in the northwestern Pacific Ocean during the last interglacial period: evidence from radiolarian assemblages2014

    • Author(s)
      Yasudomi, Y., Motoyama, I., Oba, T. and Anma, R.
    • Journal Title

      Marine Micropaleontology

      Volume: 108 Pages: 1-12

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Magma flow directions in the sheeted dike complex at superfast spreading mid-ocean ridges: Insights from IODP Hole 1256D, eastern Pacific.2014

    • Author(s)
      Veloso, E. E., Hayman,N. W., Anma, R., Tominaga, M., Gonzalez, R. T., Yamazaki, T. and Astudillo, N.
    • Journal Title

      GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS

      Volume: 15 Issue: 4 Pages: 1283-1295

    • DOI

      10.1002/2013gc004957

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Biodegradation Potential of Organically Enriched Sediments under Sulfate- and Iron-Reducing Conditions as Revealed by the 16S rRNA Deep Sequencing2014

    • Author(s)
      Hori, T, Kimura, M., Aoyagi, T., Navarro, R. R., Ogata, A., Sakoda, A., Katayama, Y. and Takasaki, M.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Water and Environment Technology

      Volume: 12 Issue: 4 Pages: 357-366

    • DOI

      10.2965/jwet.2014.357

    • NAID

      130004677834

    • ISSN
      1348-2165
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III: Chronographic-Literary Styles and the King’s Portrait2014

    • Author(s)
      S. Yamada
    • Journal Title

      Orient

      Volume: 49 Pages: 31-50

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 西アジア都市形成期の土器焼成技術-分析方法の提案と焼成温度・彩文顔料の考察-2014

    • Author(s)
      小泉龍人
    • Journal Title

      西アジア考古学

      Volume: 15 Pages: 1-21

    • NAID

      40020069037

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 古代メソポタミアの粘土板とプロキシとしての珪藻分析の検討2013

    • Author(s)
      渡辺千香子、辻彰洋
    • Journal Title

      大阪学院大学人文自然論叢

      Volume: 66 Pages: 51-64

    • NAID

      40020027106

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A reconsideration on the construction period of the cruciform terraces and the elevated causeways in the Angkor monuments, based on the magnetic susceptibility of the sandstone blocks2013

    • Author(s)
      E. Uchida, K. Sato, O. Cunin, K. Toyouchi
    • Journal Title

      Archaeometry

      Volume: 55 (6) Issue: 6 Pages: 1034-1047

    • DOI

      10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00717.x

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] NAA and XRF analyses and magnetic susceptibIIIty measurement of Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets2013

    • Author(s)
      Johannes H. Sterba, Etsuo Uchida, Max Bichler, Toshiki Sasaki, Chikako E. Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      Scienze dell 'Antichita

      Volume: 17(2011) Pages: 403-450

    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] An Adoption Contract from Tell Taban, the Kings of the Land of Hana, and the Hana-style Scribal Tradition2013

    • Author(s)
      Shigeo Yamada
    • Journal Title

      Revue d'assyriologie et d'archeologie orientale

      Volume: 105(2011) Pages: 61-84

    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Pudum Rotation List from Tell Taban and the Cultural Milieu of Tabatum in the Post-Hammurabi Period2013

    • Author(s)
      Shigeo Yamada
    • Journal Title

      Revue d'assyriologie et d'archeologie orientale

      Volume: 105(2011) Pages: 137-156

    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 地球化学フィンガープリントによるメソポタミア粘土板の原産地推定の試み2015

    • Author(s)
      安間了、申基徹、昆慶明、横尾頼子、中野孝教、渡辺千香子
    • Organizer
      第5回同位体環境学シンポジウム
    • Place of Presentation
      総合地球環境学研究所(京都府京都市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-25
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 動物が象徴する古代メソポタミアの精神世界2015

    • Author(s)
      渡辺千香子
    • Organizer
      関西学院大学西洋史研究会第18回年次大会
    • Place of Presentation
      関西学院大学(兵庫県西宮市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Geochemical studies on clay tablets and sediments from Mesopotamia2015

    • Author(s)
      Anma, R., Shin, K-C., Nakano, T., Kon, Y., Yokoo, Y, Watanabe, C., Tuji, A., Koizumi, T., Altaweel, M., Marsh, A., Jotheri, J.
    • Organizer
      国際シンポジウム「Advances in Geoarchaeological Approaches to Ancient Mesopotamia: Tablets, Paleogeography and Microfossils」
    • Place of Presentation
      埼玉大学東京ステーションカレッジ(東京都千代田区)
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-14
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] スレイマニヤ博物館所蔵のメソポタミア粘土板胎土の組成2015

    • Author(s)
      安間了、申基澈、中野孝教、昆慶明、辻彰洋、渡辺千香子、横尾頼子、ラシード・カマル
    • Organizer
      日本地質学会第122年学術大会 T2-O-10
    • Place of Presentation
      信州大学(長野県松本市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-12
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] メソポタミア粘土板胎土の組成と原産地特定の試み2015

    • Author(s)
      安間了、申基澈、中野孝教、昆慶明、辻彰洋、渡辺千香子、横尾頼子、ラシード・カマル
    • Organizer
      地球惑星科学関連学会合同大会. HTT-31
    • Place of Presentation
      幕張メッセ(千葉県千葉市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-27
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 古代メソポタミアにおけるワインとビールの文化2015

    • Author(s)
      渡辺千香子
    • Organizer
      日本西アジア考古学会 公開シンポジウム「古代西アジアの食文化:ワインとビールの物語」
    • Place of Presentation
      中部大学名古屋キャンパス(愛知県名古屋市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-31
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] ワインとビールの起源と展開2015

    • Author(s)
      小泉龍人
    • Organizer
      日本西アジア考古学会 公開シンポジウム
    • Place of Presentation
      中部大学名古屋キャンパス(愛知県名古屋市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-31
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 堆積物に探る最終間氷期以降のアラビア半島・西アジアの環境変動:プロジェクト紹介2014

    • Author(s)
      安間了、申基徹、横尾頼子
    • Organizer
      第4回同位体環境学シンポジウム
    • Place of Presentation
      総合地球環境学研究所(京都)
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-22
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Unraveling the mystery of an unrecorded event: identifying the four foreigners paying homage to Ashurbanipal in BM ME 124945-62014

    • Author(s)
      Novotny, J. and Watanabe, C. E.
    • Organizer
      Conference: “Interaction, Interplay and Combined Use of Different Sources in Neo-Assyrian Studies: Monumental Texts and Archival Sources”
    • Place of Presentation
      国際会館(茨城県つくば市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-11 – 2014-12-13
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Ulluba and Its Surroundings: Tiglath-pileser III’s province making facing the Urartian border reconsidered from royal inscriptions and letters2014

    • Author(s)
      Shigeo Yamada
    • Organizer
      Conference: “Interaction, Interplay and Combined Use of Different Sources in Neo-Assyrian Studies: Monumental Texts and Archival Sources”
    • Place of Presentation
      国際会館(茨城県つくば市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-11 – 2014-12-13
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 楔形文字文書に見るメソポタミアのビールとワイン2014

    • Author(s)
      山田重郎
    • Organizer
      日本西アジア考古学会 公開シンポジウム「古代西アジアの食文化:ワインとビールの物語」
    • Place of Presentation
      早稲田大学戸山キャンパス(東京)
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-06
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 西アジアの地質・自然環境と人類史2014

    • Author(s)
      安間了
    • Organizer
      日本地質学会第121年学術大会
    • Place of Presentation
      鹿児島大学(鹿児島市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-14
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Sulfur oxidizing microorganisms on deteriorated sandstone of Angkor Monuments, Cambodia2014

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Katayama
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Biodeterioration and Protection of Cultural Heritage
    • Place of Presentation
      Conservation Institute, Dunhuang Academy, Dunhuang, China
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-21
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 古気候変動に問う西アジアの歴史2014

    • Author(s)
      安間了、丸岡照幸
    • Organizer
      シンポジウム「現代文明の基層としての古代西アジア文明」
    • Place of Presentation
      池袋サンシャインシティー(東京)
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-28
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Preliminary Results of the 2011-2013 Excavations on Salat Tepe in the Upper Tigris: the Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic periods2014

    • Author(s)
      Tatsundo Koizumi
    • Organizer
      9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Basel (Basel, Switzerland)
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-13
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 遺跡劣化砂岩から分離されたFusarium solaniに内生する細菌2014

    • Author(s)
      片山葉子
    • Organizer
      第1回菌類内生細菌情報交換会
    • Place of Presentation
      茨城大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Philological and Scientific analyses of cuneiform tablets housed in Sulaymaniyah Museum2013

    • Author(s)
      Chikako E. Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Archaeological Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the adjacent areas
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Athens, Athens
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 銅石器時代の土器復原研究-窯壁と顔料の理化学的分析-2013

    • Author(s)
      小泉龍人
    • Organizer
      第18回日本西アジア考古学会
    • Place of Presentation
      東京大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Excavations of the Chalcolithic levels at Salat Tepe on the Upper Tigris, Southeastern Anatolia2013

    • Author(s)
      Tatsundo Koizumi
    • Organizer
      Archaeological Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Adjacent Areas
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Athens, Athens
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ティグラト・ピレセル3世碑文-形式的・歴史記述的特徴2012

    • Author(s)
      山田重郎
    • Organizer
      第54回オリエント学会
    • Place of Presentation
      東海大学湘南キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2012-11-25
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Non-destructive analyses of Mesopotamian clay tablets2012

    • Author(s)
      E. Uchida, T. Sasaki, K. Inoue, C. Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Assyriological Seminar, Yale University
    • Place of Presentation
      エール大学スターリング記念図書館
    • Year and Date
      2012-09-11
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Philological and scientific analyses of cuneiform tablets housed in Sulaymaniyah (Slemani) Museum. In K. Kopanias and J. MacGinnis (eds.), The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions2016

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, C. E., Kopanias, K., J. MacGinnis, Koizumi, T. et al.
    • Publisher
      Archaeopress, Oxford
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 都市の起源 古代の先進地域=西アジアを掘る2016

    • Author(s)
      小泉龍人
    • Total Pages
      254
    • Publisher
      選書メチエ 講談社
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Pyrotechnological Development from the Halaf-Ubaid to Late Chalcolithic Periods in Upper Mesopotamia: A Preliminary Study on Pottery from Salat Tepe, southeastern Turkey. In M. Iamoni (ed.), Trajectories of complexity in Upper Mesopotamia: processes and dynamics of social complexity and their origin in the Halaf period2016

    • Author(s)
      Koizumi, T.
    • Publisher
      Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions2015

    • Author(s)
      K. Kopanias, J. MacGinnis, Watanabe, C. E., et al.
    • Publisher
      Archaeopress
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] リーディングス21世紀アジア2014

    • Author(s)
      梶原景昭、栗原通世、横沢民男、竹川智樹、山田美絵子、小口和美、R. カイム、佐藤研一、竹村英二、表きよし、三輪春樹、濱田英作、青柳寛
    • Total Pages
      273
    • Publisher
      成文堂
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 西アジア文明学への招待2014

    • Author(s)
      常木晃、安間了 その他
    • Total Pages
      283
    • Publisher
      悠書館
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 西アジア文明学への招待2014

    • Author(s)
      常木晃、山田重郎 その他
    • Total Pages
      283
    • Publisher
      悠書館
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 「メソポタミアにおける「王の業績録」-年名と王碑文に見る王室歴史記録」 柴田大輔編 『月本昭男先生退職記念献呈論文集第3巻: 楔形文字文化の世界』 pp.120-1462013

    • Author(s)
      山田重郎
    • Total Pages
      216
    • Publisher
      聖公会出版
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 佐藤洋一郎・谷口真人編『イェローベルトの環境史-サヘルからシルクロードへ』第1章「メソポタミアの環境史-自然観・歴史展開・文化の視点から」2012

    • Author(s)
      渡辺千香子
    • Publisher
      弘文堂
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] "The City of Tabatum and Its Surroundings : The Organization of Power in the Post-Hammurabi Period", in G. Wilhelm (ed.), Organisation, Representation and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East,2012

    • Author(s)
      Shigeo Yamada
    • Publisher
      Eisenbrauns
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] イラクの塩害と砂漠化の環境史

    • URL

      http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/ecohistory/index.html

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report 2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] イラクの塩害と砂漠化の環境史

    • URL

      http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/ecohistory/index.html

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] 国際シンポジウム「Advances in Geoarchaeological Approaches to Ancient Mesopotamia: Tablets, Paleogeography and Microfossils」2015

    • Place of Presentation
      埼玉大学東京ステーションカレッジ(東京都千代田区)
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-14
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report

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