Eckhard Unger ( Landsberg an der Warthe, 11 April 1884 – 24 July 1966) was a German

assyriologist Assyriology (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , ''-logy, -logia''), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cune ...

. Unger who was the curator of the Istanbul museum described the remains of Balawat Gates that are still in the Istanbul Museum. Unger was fully aware that the major parts of the gates were in London and Paris as he had visited both locations and discussed them with the respective curators.Zum Bronzetor von Balawat, Beiträge zur Erklärung und Deutung der assyrischen Inschriften und Reliefs Salmanassars III
Eckhard Unger, retrieved 4 September 2014 Nippur_cubit

In 1916, as curator of the Archeological Museum of Istanbul, he identified and described a copper-alloy object in the museum collection as an ell or measuring rod from Nippur. Dating to the first half of the third millennium BC or even earlier, possibly the oldest known measuring device, it supposedly defines the

Sumer Sumer () is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. ...

ian

cubit The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was primarily associated with the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Israelites. The term ''cubit'' is found in the Bible regarding Noah ...

at about 518.6 millimetres. During World War I he made a first detailed research in Basilica cistern (yerebatan Sarnıcı) at İstanbul.

Published works

The many published works of Eckhard Unger include among others:
''Zum Bronzetor von Balawat. Beiträge zur Erklärung und Deutung der assyrischen Inschriften und Reliefs Salmanassars III''
(thesis) Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer 1913 * ''Zwei babylonische Antiken aus Nippur'' .l.1916. (Publikationen der Kaiserlich Osmanischen Museen) * ''Katalog der babylonischen und assyrischen Sammlung Kaiserlich osmanische Museen'' Istanbul: Ihsan 1918 * ''Die Wiederherstellung des Bronzetores von Balawat'' eipzig inrichs 1920 * ''Welt und Mensch im alten Orient'' Berlin: Witting .d.* ''Hettitische und aramäische kunst'' erlin 923* ''Sumerische und akkadische Kunst'' Breslau: Hirt 1926 * ''Assyrische und Babylonische Kunst'' Breslau: Hirt 1927 * ''Das Stadtbild von Assur'' Leipzig: Hinrichs 1929 (Der alte Orient, 27:3) * ''Babylon. Die heilige Stadt nach der Beschreibung der Babylonier'' 1931 (2nd ed. Berlin: De Gruyter 1970)

References

1884 births 1966 deaths 20th-century German archaeologists {{Germany-archaeologist-stub