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The third season of excavations at Tell Taya lasted from late September, 1972, into January, 1973. Work was sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, which provided a grant towards the costs. Further vital support came from generous anonymous donations; from the British Academy; from the Royal Ontario Museum; from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and from the Ashmolean Museum. My own work has been made possible by tenure of a Gerald Averay Wainwright Fellowship. Staff on the site, besides myself, comprised my wife, S. Nan Shaw, conservator and registrar; Mr. George Farrant, architect; Mr. Stuart Brown and Miss Margaret Stout, site supervisors; Miss Susan Dobinson, who was responsible for the pottery; Mr. Nicholas Stainforth, general assistant; and Mr. Hilary Stuart Williams, architectural assistant. I am very greatly indebted to all of them for their hard work and patience. Sd. Khalid Sawit al-Durra represented the Iraq authorities, and I am further grateful, for assistance of many kinds, to numerous members of the Directorate-General of Antiquities, both in Baghdad and Mosul, and to the local government officials in Tell Afar.
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