ABSTRACT
TH E full scientific account of my excavation at al-‘ Ubaid has already been published by the Trustees of the British Museum, and for details of the work and its results, which of course were far more important than at Shahrain, or, so far as I was concerned, at Ur, I must refer readers to that publication. The present chapter deals more gen erally with the excavations and finds. I am indebted to the Trustees for permission to quote liberally from my former work and use some of its illustrations.
