The City Of
Subject/ report about: (The works of maintenance for the period between
1979 – 1986, and the damaging out of the rain water, surge, factor of
denudation and the coming danger).
We don’t know who was the king who built Ashur.
The Gate of Tabira (pic. no. 1):
The gate has been maintained by the mud bricks and baked bricks, but the
works of maintenance stopped in 1986 because of the exhaustion of balance, and
has no more any financial allocation
from that time until now.
First: The shoulders and the outer
towers:
a. The grand outer tower: the notable tower or what named the northern
tower, as a result of the stopping works of maintenance, so the tower was
susceptible for longitudinal crack because of the rain water and flowage. And
that lead to fall out a lot of baked bricks.(pic.no.2)
b. Frontage of the bench: Where a part from the frontage
in southern portion has been collapsed, because of the rain water. And the
floor gate has been cracked because of the groundwater (pic. no. 3). 
As it is clear, the floor needs for rebuilding
the baked bricks cover, and injecting the cracks and grooves by mud mixing with
water. (Pic No 4)
c. Souther
ner
tower: These are in need for a lot of maintenance works, as the outer cover
which built by baked bricks.
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the applied plan it is to height with two towers to be with same height of the
wall that connecting the both towers to prevent the flowage dropping on the
frontage. (Pic No 5)
D The wall of mud bricks: It is extending to covered
baked bricks wall; it is standing in northern direction to the towers. Its face
was corroding as a result of the rain and surge. So it need for the maintaining
works in many damaged part. (Pic No 6)
Second: The Gate Floor:
A. It did not received with any chance from the
maintenance works which had been happen, so it founded big cracks (tunnels)
because of ignoring the floor, which was happened because of the rain water,
which referred to it an above. (Pic. no. 7).
B.1. Collapse – room no. (1),
collapse of bases: A number of bricks have been fallen from the bottom of the
wall, over the stone bases. (Pic. no.8).
And in the same room there is
longitudinal crack in the wall. (Pic. no. 9).
2. Room no. (3), it is opponent to
the previous room; it has happened some cracks in the bases. (Pic. no. 10).
3. Room no. (2) It is the second room in the right of entrance, its bases
has still alright, but it has needed for strengthen. (Pic. no.11).
4. Room no. (4) It has needed for strengthen in the bases and wall. (Pic.
no. 12).
c. Shoulders which bearer the arcs: it has happened some of cracks in the
walls and floor in the southern side.
1. Southern shoulder stood far of the arch, it has
happened some cracks. (Pic. no. 13).
And it has a longitudinal crack. See the same above.
2. Third
shoulder (the last), in the southern side where some cracks has been happened,
from the internal phase in the wall. (Pic. no. 14).
3. Cracks have been happened in the corner of southern
tower in the outer junction, from the gate above the bench with the third
shoulder. Pic. No. (15).
2- The Gate of Al-Lat, ( the western )
: Where has been maintained in 1979 by mud bricks, has been finished the outer
phase has been finished with the two side tower. But the works of maintains has
been height more than 3 m, and it was corroding because of the surges and rain
water. (Pic. no. 16).
And also a part from the extending wall into the west with 50 m. long
has been maintained by mud and bricks. But a crack from the beneath has
corroded from the phase. (Pic. no.17).
I would also like to mention, that it is necessary to be paved with
bricks 40 × 40floor, and add the bitumen
between the parts of the baked bricks. Also it is better to rebuild the fence.
3- The
The outer wall has been maintained for the both western and southern
sides, and a part from eastern side by bricks and mud, with height 2 m., but
cracks has happened because of rain water. (Pic. no. 18).
And also it is necessary to re maintain
all the temple parts by the bricks, and built bases for the two ziqqurat by the
same stone which was used in the past. Where the western zakkurat has been
removed because of the excavation of the German expedition, but the eastern
zakkurat has still some of it. (Pic. no.19).
And also it is necessary to maintain
the floor of the temple by bricks 40×40 and add the bitumen among it.
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So it must finish its maintenance as
soon as possible, because it lies under beneath sea level, or at least to
height with built to the level of the apparent mud bricks in it western part. (Pic.
no.21).
5.The
For the western part, and (pic. no. 23) for the southern part.
Also it has need to maintenance by
baked bricks and paved the floors. (Pic.no.24).
6. The Ziqqurat of the goddess Ashur
( The Great Ziqqurat ): After the
finishing from the works of digging and excavation in 1982, some removed parts
has maintained, in the three damaged corners, but the northeast corner is still
undamaged. Also it has rebuilt the eastern and southern frontages, by mud
bricks as outer covering to keep the origin shape and appear the square shape
of it, but that maintenance has been decayed and corroding because of the rain
water as in the (pic. no. 24-25). For the two western and southern sides.
The visitor can see that the Ziqqurat
has became as paramedical hill and square base, can not understand anything
from the origin shape .So it is very necessary for thinking to maintain it, at
least a small part with law height, to look like in a historical and scientific
shape, where the study of the maintenance is complete with document and lines.
7. Um Al-Shababeet:
It is a season river, the rain water and Al jazz era valleys gathering in it to
fill in the
This path has caused grooves and
cracks every time, so we suggested changing the path to be far from the
frontages of this side almost for (10 m.). Or thinking of rebuilding the
forceful of Ashur by baked bricks and limestone as it were in the past.
8. The Dam: It
is the building that faces the river, it prevents from drifting the city, it
has built by stone and the frontage by bitumen, and the northern part has still
existing, but a part from it has downfallen and other part has cracked the
opposite to the mission residence head-to the north. But the bases have still
appear in the path of the river. (Pic. no.28).
I
want to confirm that the operation of building the fallen and collapsed part
the opposite to the mission is very important to prevent the denudation and
corroding. Pic. No. (29).
9. Drifting of the river:
The falling of the Dam in the outreach zone against the mission residence and
head-to the south, it gives a chance to the Tigris to lost many parts from the
(prince palace-crown prince), but yearly corroding, in the past three years
this caused intense river drifting in the crisp drift spot, and it began get
into the city in a spot reach for 40m. Long and 20m. Path inside the city. (Pic.
no. 30).
The river in this spot has threatened
the city and the residence of the mission, the operation treatment not
difficult, it just need to full the river ventricle by limestone to shape a
lump against the river. (Pic. no. 28).
Therewith that we make two things:
the first is stopping the drifting, and the second is rebuild a stone lumps
stand for beside the backed bricks that facing to the river.
This research has been done by
Mustafa Maaroof Hussein.