caa a22 4500 386386552 CHVBK 20180307112100.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/4200305 doi S0021088900004605 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/4200305 Clutton-Brock Juliet A Dog and a Donkey Excavated at Tell Brak [Elektronische Daten] [Juliet Clutton-Brock] During the 1987 season of excavations at Tell Brak under the direction of David and Joan Oates, the skeleton of a small equid was revealed on the floor of what was probably the courtyard of a large public building believed to date to the Akkadian period (locus FS 565). Poplar beams from an adjacent courtyard have provided radiocarbon dates of 3990 ± 50 and 3960 ± 50 BP (BM-2554 and -2556, see p. 213), 2580-2455 cal B.C. Associated with the equid skeleton was a small number of bones of domestic pig, cattle, sheep/goat, and a Demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo; identified by G. Cowles, Bird Section, BM(NH)). Excavation of the bones showed that not only was the skeleton exceptionally well preserved but that the soft parts of the body were moulded in the earth (Plates XXIX a-b). The lungs and stomach could be easily discerned and the coiled intestines were represented by strings of coprolites. The "soft parts” were covered with what appeared to be a surface film of orange-green material. Everything was lifted with as much care as possible by the excavation conservator, Mrs. Risë Taylor-Andreasen, using Paraloid B72 (methyl methacrylate/ethyl acrylate) and UHU (cellulose nitrate) as consolidants where essential. Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1990 Iraq Cambridge University Press 51(1989), 217-224 0021-0889 51<217 1989 51 IRQ https://doi.org/10.2307/4200305 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/4200305 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Clutton-Brock Juliet NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Iraq Cambridge University Press 51(1989), 217-224 0021-0889 51<217 1989 51 IRQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge