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and a refuse pit. The ceramic material found there was of Late ED III/ Early
Akkadian date. Huch more can be said of the Layer 3. It contained a large
fragment of a habitation quarter, composed of tightly packed dwelling houses and
oftwoparallellanes, running ca. 10m from each other and very narrow (ca. 1
m). Parts of at least five houses were found in the explored area.(Fig. 2) The
houses, erected inmudbricknteasuring 0.48x0.3x0.1 m, consisted of 2 to 4
rooms and courtyard. Host of the wails have been plastered. Inside the house
there were numerous flat fire-places and tannurs. In one of the rooms (Locus 20)



Fig. 2. Tell AbRHafur, Area A. Drawing by R.Kolihski

an installation composed of two small square basins was unearthed. A series of
rooms, or maybe rather open spaces grouped along the North-Eastern border of the
trench seems to serve some household and economic activities. The very abundant

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