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From House, Palace, and Temple: Artifacts from Nuzi at Harvard

Authors

Site History
James A. Armstrong

The 1927-31 Expeditions, Settlement Maps, Objects

Adam Aja

Vitreous Materials
Katherine Eremin

Metals

Francesca G. Bewer

Administration

Project oversight
Susanne Ebbinghaus and Amy Brauer

Editor
Carolann Barrett

Web design
Steve Hutchison

Web and application development
Ziad Alsukairy, Kulbir Singh Hira, Chris De Angelis

Acknowledgments

I conducted the research for this project in the academic year 2006–7 for the Harvard Art Museum’s Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art and Numismatics. The process quickly expanded to draw the attention of a large group of skilled and interested researchers, scholars, administrators, photographers, computer specialists, and art handlers.

It is difficult to name and thank each person who has added to this project, and I apologize to those I neglect here. I must first thank my coauthors: James A. Armstrong (who also provided initial guidance and my introduction to Nuzi), Francesca Bewer, and Katherine Eremin. Susanne Ebbinghaus and Amy Brauer supervised all stages of the project, and their enthusiastic support was instrumental in moving the research toward online publication. Karen Manning tirelessly helped tie up all loose ends. Staff at the Harvard Semitic Museum repeatedly provided access to the original excavation records, photography, and film, and without their support, the project would have fallen apart at an early stage. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the University of Pennsylvania Museum also provided records during research. I thank David I. Owen for his trust in lending me a copy of the R. F. S. Starr interview. Philip McGuire and Jeffrey Valade cleaned up the poor sound on the video clips.

Elsewhere at the Art Museum, Francine Flynn, Dorothy Dávila, Susan von Salis, and Abby Smith patiently assisted me with each inquiry and provided easy access to Nuzi records. I thank Ziad Alsukairy, Kulbir Singh Hira, Chris De Angelis, and Mary Gallagher for believing in the project and finding time to work on its technical aspects, Danielle Hanrahan and Steve Hutchison for converting my crude pencil sketches into an elegant design, and Carolann Barrett and Evelyn Rosenthal for their dedicated editorial work. David Sturtevant, Jay Beebe, Katya Kallsen, Chris Linnane, and Julie Swiderski worked to ensure that all artifacts were beautifully represented. Anna Kovacs’s photography formed the backbone of the digital record. Craigen Bowen helped to clarify confusion surrounding the wall painting reproductions. A few objects required immediate conservation to prepare them for photography, and I thank Henry Lie, Nancy Lloyd, and Anthony Sigel for their careful work. Finally, thanks goes to Tom Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, for his support of the Andrew W. Mellon fellowship program, under which this project was initiated. Thank you all.

Adam Aja
Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow 2006–7