Eckhard Unger
Eckhard Unger was a German assyriologist.
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.
, Turkey
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 Sumerian cubit at about 518.6 millimetres.During the I World War he made a first detailed research in Basilica cistern at İstanbul.Published works
The many published works of Eckhard Unger include among others:
- Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer 1913
- Zwei babylonische Antiken aus Nippur 1916.
- Katalog der babylonischen und assyrischen Sammlung Kaiserlich osmanische Museen Istanbul: Ihsan 1918
- Die Wiederherstellung des Bronzetores von Balawat : , 1920
- Welt und Mensch im alten Orient Berlin: Witting
- Hettitische und aramäische kunst
- Sumerische und akkadische Kunst Breslau: Hirt 1926
- Assyrische und Babylonische Kunst Breslau: Hirt 1927
- Das Stadtbild von Assur Leipzig: Hinrichs 1929
- Babylon. Die heilige Stadt nach der Beschreibung der Babylonier 1931
