This paper presents a documentary and archaeological study of the watermills in Ottoman Mosul to gain a political and social-economic understanding of the water-resource management in Mosul and its north-eastern hinterland in the early modern period. Watermills are of importance to historians, as the simple buildings equipped with sophisticated hydraulic devices, for teasing out various strands of water-resource management and agricultural economies from a regional and longue-dureé perspective. By synthesizing historical and archaeological methodological approaches, this paper aims to address the questions of what historical legacy of Mosul was left to the Ottoman Empire regarding the water infrastructure, including watermills and irrigation systems, and what contribution the Ottoman administration made to the development of Mosul’s water infrastructure. It presents an archaeological examination of a group of milling installations in Wadi Bandawai in the north of Mosul, demonstrating changes in settlement patterns during the long Islamic period, from the 7th to early 20th centuries, and also drawing attention to methodological problems with Islamic and Ottoman archaeology concerning the periodization of material culture.

本文介绍了对奥斯曼摩苏尔水磨坊的文献和考古研究，以从政治和社会经济角度了解摩苏尔及其东北腹地在近代早期的水资源管理。水磨坊对历史学家来说很重要，因为这些简单的建筑配备了精密的液压设备，可以从区域和长周期中梳理出水资源管理和农业经济的各个方面看法。通过综合历史和考古方法，本文旨在解决以下问题：摩苏尔在水利基础设施（包括水车和灌溉系统）方面留给奥斯曼帝国的历史遗产是什么，以及奥斯曼政府对摩苏尔的发展做出了什么贡献水基础设施。它对摩苏尔北部 Wadi Bandawai 的一组铣削设施进行了考古检查，展示了从 7 世纪到 20 世纪初的漫长伊斯兰时期的定居模式变化，同时也引起了人们对伊斯兰和奥斯曼帝国方法论问题的关注关于物质文化分期的考古学。