Submitted: 15 May 1995 Murray Lee Eiland, Mr. Research Lab for Archaeology 6 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3Qj UK Phones: 01865 515 211 FAX: 01865 273 932 The Parthian period, Mesopotamia (Modern Iraq) : in particular, the site of Nineveh. Concentrating upon small finds, ceramics are investigated using petrography and the scanning Electron Microscope