DOI Artikel:
Reiche, Andrzej: Polish Archaeological Research in north-eastern Syria
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0105
6. Tell Arbid
Step trench
on the eastern
slop of the main hill
(photo A. Reiche)
in the Early Jazirah III period. Also some grave goods come from the third
millennium B.C. - mother-of-pearl animal-shaped pendants and frit beads
imitating swimming birds or round beads of frit with pieces of rock crystal
embedded in them. The collection also contains several copper (bronze?)
objects: a bracelet and two toggle pins (Early Jazirah Illb), an sickle blade
(Early Jazirah IV) and a dagger blade (Mitannian).
In 1996 a joint Polish-Syrian archaeological mission initiated systematic
excavations at Tell Arbid,26 site located some 30 km south-west of the town
Qamyshli. The site extends on ca. 40 hectares and has a varying structure. Its
dominant feature, a high main tell rises over 25 m above the surrounding
plain and stretches on an area of 12 hectares. Less than a hundred metres to
the west lies a fringe of three smaller satellite tells under 2 hectares in extent
and some 5 m in height each. The first settlement probably took place in the
Halaf period, but its widest rangę and greatest development is dated to the
first half of the third millennium B.C. (Early Jazirah Illb). Continuous
settlement lasted until the middle of the second millennium B.C. After
several centuries of abandonment the site was resettled in the first millennium
B.C. (Neo-Babylonian, Hellenistic and Partho-Roman periods) although only
the satellite tells were resettled.
The oldest layers reached so far datę back to the Early Jazirah Ilia period
when a medium-sized town was spreading here, central part thereof was an
26 P. Bieliński, “Tell Arbid. First Campaign of Syro-Polish Excavations”, in PAM VIII, 1997, p. 206.
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Step trench
on the eastern
slop of the main hill
(photo A. Reiche)
in the Early Jazirah III period. Also some grave goods come from the third
millennium B.C. - mother-of-pearl animal-shaped pendants and frit beads
imitating swimming birds or round beads of frit with pieces of rock crystal
embedded in them. The collection also contains several copper (bronze?)
objects: a bracelet and two toggle pins (Early Jazirah Illb), an sickle blade
(Early Jazirah IV) and a dagger blade (Mitannian).
In 1996 a joint Polish-Syrian archaeological mission initiated systematic
excavations at Tell Arbid,26 site located some 30 km south-west of the town
Qamyshli. The site extends on ca. 40 hectares and has a varying structure. Its
dominant feature, a high main tell rises over 25 m above the surrounding
plain and stretches on an area of 12 hectares. Less than a hundred metres to
the west lies a fringe of three smaller satellite tells under 2 hectares in extent
and some 5 m in height each. The first settlement probably took place in the
Halaf period, but its widest rangę and greatest development is dated to the
first half of the third millennium B.C. (Early Jazirah Illb). Continuous
settlement lasted until the middle of the second millennium B.C. After
several centuries of abandonment the site was resettled in the first millennium
B.C. (Neo-Babylonian, Hellenistic and Partho-Roman periods) although only
the satellite tells were resettled.
The oldest layers reached so far datę back to the Early Jazirah Ilia period
when a medium-sized town was spreading here, central part thereof was an
26 P. Bieliński, “Tell Arbid. First Campaign of Syro-Polish Excavations”, in PAM VIII, 1997, p. 206.
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