Hill H.D., Jacobsen Th., Delougaz P. Old Babylonian Public Buildings in the Diyala Region: Part One: Excavations at Ishchali / Part Two: Khafajah Mounds B, C, and D

The University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 304 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 98).Ishchali (usually identified as ancient Nêribtum) belonged to the independent kingdom of Eshnunna, with its capital at modern Tell Asmar, also excavated by the Diyala Expedition. The architectural chronology established for the Kitîtum Temple (IA = original building) rests ultimately on brick inscriptions of Ipiq-Adad II of Eshnunna (period IIB), which also identify Inanna Kitîtum as the primary deity of the temple, and Ibal-pî-el II (period III/IV), identical with his inscriptions from Tell Asmar so not specific to this structure. Other brick inscriptions, of Sumu-Amnanim, had no context. Broadly the building flourished from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-eighteenth century BC.With contributions by T. A. Holland and A. McMahon.