Victor Place was appointed as a consul to Mosul in 1851, where having arrived in 1852 he started excavations at Khorsabad. Financial problems forced him to stop this activity towards the end of 1853. As the Interior Ministry appointed him to another post in 1854, he wanted to transport the Khorsabad finds before he left Mosul. However, the roads were extremely unsafe because of the Muntafiq Arab tribes’ revolt. The local authorities repeatedly warned Place about this problem, stressing that he should wait until after the revolt was over before leaving. But despite these warnings, Place transported the Khorsabad finds from Mosul to Baghdad by keleks (rafts). The plan was then to transport them to Basra from Baghdad. Place set off on the river with a fleet made up of four keleks and a ship. Smuggled goods loaded on the ship made it heavier and attracted the attention of looters. On 21 May 1855, the fleet was attacked by bandits in the region of Kurna, located between Baghdad and Basra. The ship and two keleks sank at the spot, while the remaining two keleks arrived at Basra with some of the rescued goods. Various attempts to retrieve the sunken finds then followed. This article accordingly considers new data on the Kurna accident, drawing on Ottoman archival sources, particularly reports written at the time that discussed the possible causes of the accident and the negligent actions linked to it. As the destroyed memory of Khorsabad makes clear, archaeology cannot be rushed.

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被毁的霍尔萨巴德、维克多广场的记忆和沉船的故事

Victor Place 于 1851 年被任命为摩苏尔领事，1852 年抵达摩苏尔后，他开始在 Khorsabad 进行挖掘工作。财务问题迫使他在 1853 年底停止这项活动。由于内政部于 1854 年任命他到另一个职位，他想在离开摩苏尔之前运送 Khorsabad 的发现。然而，由于蒙塔菲克阿拉伯部落的反抗，道路极为不安全。地方当局多次警告普莱斯这个问题，强调他应该等到叛乱结束后再离开。但尽管有这些警告，Place 还是将 Khorsabad 的发现从摩苏尔运到了巴格达。凯莱克斯（木筏）。当时的计划是将他们从巴格达运到巴士拉。由四人组成的舰队在河上出发凯莱克斯和一艘船。船上装载的走私货物使其更重，并引起了抢劫者的注意。1855 年 5 月 21 日，舰队在位于巴格达和巴士拉之间的库尔纳地区遭到土匪袭击。船和两个凯莱克斯当场沉没，剩下的两个凯莱克斯带着一些获救的货物抵达巴士拉。随后进行了各种取回沉没发现的尝试。本文相应地考虑了有关库尔纳事故的新数据，借鉴了奥斯曼档案资料，特别是当时撰写的讨论事故可能原因和与之相关的疏忽行为的报告。正如对 Khorsabad 被破坏的记忆所表明的那样，考古工作不能仓促。