DOI Artikel:
Reiche, Andrzej: Polish Archaeological Research in north-eastern Syria
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0104
7. Beadsand pendantsfrom
child burials madę of mother
of pearl (l/2,5,6,8,9),
limestone (3), frit (4,7),
frit+rock cristal (10),
bone (11);
found ot Tell Rad Shaqra
(1-7,10,11) and Tell Djassa
el Gharbi (8,9), dated
tothe Early Jazirah lllb period.
The National Museum, Warsaw
inv. nos 238210, 238212,
238205, 238209,
23821 1,238208,
238222a-c, 238166,
238165, 238223a,b,
238217
(photo Z. Doliński)
el-Gharbi. Much morę metallic ware vessels were found which had been a
freąuent feature of children's graves several of which were unearthed within
the settlement. The graves produced also a yield of adornments: copper or
bronze bracelets and pierced toggle pins, necklaces of frit beads and animal-
shaped mother of pearl pendants. A single, especially interesting item was a
stone idol in form of a limestone head shaped as an irregular prism, with one
carefully worked slightly obliąue side.25 Its highly simplified engraved
decoration represents an outline of a face (nose, eyes with eyebrows) and a
high wig or some kind of head-dress above it. Ali engraved lines, except for
the nose, had been originally filled with bitumen.
Resulting from the partage of the finds from the sites discussed above, and
through cooperation with Warsaw University, the Museum gained 94 objects,
mainly from the Early Jazirah lllb and IV periods. The main bulk of the gain
comprises pottery - cooking pots and jars - including a double-mouth one.
Some jars have incised potter's marks. There is also a numerous group of
fineware drinking vessels, as well as “metallic ware” vessels. There are also
handmade miniaturę vessels mcluding a footed goblet decorated with an
incised schematic depiction of three orant figures, as well as a terracotta
model (partially preserved) of a high-sided four-wheel cart or wagon popular
25 P. Bieliński, “A Smali Limestone Head from Tell rad Shaqrah and Its Distant ‘Cousins’ from
Tell Brak”, in Of Pots and Pla?is. Papers on the Archaeology and History of Mesopotamia and
Syria Presented to David Oates in Honour of His 75"’ Birthday, ed. by L. al-Gailani Werr et al.,
London 2002, pp. 1-4.
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child burials madę of mother
of pearl (l/2,5,6,8,9),
limestone (3), frit (4,7),
frit+rock cristal (10),
bone (11);
found ot Tell Rad Shaqra
(1-7,10,11) and Tell Djassa
el Gharbi (8,9), dated
tothe Early Jazirah lllb period.
The National Museum, Warsaw
inv. nos 238210, 238212,
238205, 238209,
23821 1,238208,
238222a-c, 238166,
238165, 238223a,b,
238217
(photo Z. Doliński)
el-Gharbi. Much morę metallic ware vessels were found which had been a
freąuent feature of children's graves several of which were unearthed within
the settlement. The graves produced also a yield of adornments: copper or
bronze bracelets and pierced toggle pins, necklaces of frit beads and animal-
shaped mother of pearl pendants. A single, especially interesting item was a
stone idol in form of a limestone head shaped as an irregular prism, with one
carefully worked slightly obliąue side.25 Its highly simplified engraved
decoration represents an outline of a face (nose, eyes with eyebrows) and a
high wig or some kind of head-dress above it. Ali engraved lines, except for
the nose, had been originally filled with bitumen.
Resulting from the partage of the finds from the sites discussed above, and
through cooperation with Warsaw University, the Museum gained 94 objects,
mainly from the Early Jazirah lllb and IV periods. The main bulk of the gain
comprises pottery - cooking pots and jars - including a double-mouth one.
Some jars have incised potter's marks. There is also a numerous group of
fineware drinking vessels, as well as “metallic ware” vessels. There are also
handmade miniaturę vessels mcluding a footed goblet decorated with an
incised schematic depiction of three orant figures, as well as a terracotta
model (partially preserved) of a high-sided four-wheel cart or wagon popular
25 P. Bieliński, “A Smali Limestone Head from Tell rad Shaqrah and Its Distant ‘Cousins’ from
Tell Brak”, in Of Pots and Pla?is. Papers on the Archaeology and History of Mesopotamia and
Syria Presented to David Oates in Honour of His 75"’ Birthday, ed. by L. al-Gailani Werr et al.,
London 2002, pp. 1-4.
102