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Syria
DOI article:Ławecka, Dorota: Heating places and ovens of the 3rd millennium BC in sector SD on Tell Arbid
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42092#0570
TELL ARBID
SYRIA
Fig. 10. Round oven with day tray found inside
it. Square 34/65, northeastern quarter.
ED III or later (Photo A. Reiche)
OVAL
Oval or more or less circular ovens of
considerable size were found in three areas
within the boundaries of the sector. The
biggest (in Locus 5, squares 35-36/65)
exceeded 2 m along the long axis [Fig. 12;
cf. also Fig. 11].2 The floors of these ovens
are made of compacted mud and gravel,
and are up to several centimeters thick.
Like the walls made of mud brick, they are
strongly burned. The casing walls were in
all cases heavily destroyed (no more than
three courses have been preserved), but
there can be no doubt that the bricks in
each successive course projected inward
and the lean of the walls suggests a domed
structure [Fig. 11}.
Each oval oven is accompanied by at
least one round one, and it is difficult to
tell whether this repeated combination
was because of a specific purpose that the
two kinds of ovens were intended to serve
cooking. Two well preserved objects of this
type have been discovered. They have a dia-
meter of c. 0.45 m and c. 0.30 m at the base
and top respectively, and a height of 0.35 m.
The opening at the bottom is fairly big.
They feature walls of clay several
centimeters thick. One was found next to
a tannur in a domestic unit [Fig. 8], the
other stood next to two other ovens, a round
one (discussed above) and an oval one
[Figs. 9, 11}· The opening in the side of the
latter small oven was framed with a roll of
clay and there were three flat projections
around the top hole as a grid for supporting
a cooking pot [Fig. 7}.
OVENS
or because the room itself had a specific
function. The small room in which these
Fig. 11. Partly explored Locus 18 with oval
ovens. Square 36166. Late Ninevite 5
period (Photo A. Reiche)
2 Three oval ovens with tannurs next to them were discovered also in the southern part of square 36/66 (Loci 10-12), but
it is not clear whether they were inside a room or by a wall in the corner of a courtyard. Two other features — round one
in Locus 11, square 35/64, and semicircular one in Locus 64, square 36/64 — have been recorded, but it cannot be
determined in these cases whether they were ovens or hearths lined with low walls.
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SYRIA
Fig. 10. Round oven with day tray found inside
it. Square 34/65, northeastern quarter.
ED III or later (Photo A. Reiche)
OVAL
Oval or more or less circular ovens of
considerable size were found in three areas
within the boundaries of the sector. The
biggest (in Locus 5, squares 35-36/65)
exceeded 2 m along the long axis [Fig. 12;
cf. also Fig. 11].2 The floors of these ovens
are made of compacted mud and gravel,
and are up to several centimeters thick.
Like the walls made of mud brick, they are
strongly burned. The casing walls were in
all cases heavily destroyed (no more than
three courses have been preserved), but
there can be no doubt that the bricks in
each successive course projected inward
and the lean of the walls suggests a domed
structure [Fig. 11}.
Each oval oven is accompanied by at
least one round one, and it is difficult to
tell whether this repeated combination
was because of a specific purpose that the
two kinds of ovens were intended to serve
cooking. Two well preserved objects of this
type have been discovered. They have a dia-
meter of c. 0.45 m and c. 0.30 m at the base
and top respectively, and a height of 0.35 m.
The opening at the bottom is fairly big.
They feature walls of clay several
centimeters thick. One was found next to
a tannur in a domestic unit [Fig. 8], the
other stood next to two other ovens, a round
one (discussed above) and an oval one
[Figs. 9, 11}· The opening in the side of the
latter small oven was framed with a roll of
clay and there were three flat projections
around the top hole as a grid for supporting
a cooking pot [Fig. 7}.
OVENS
or because the room itself had a specific
function. The small room in which these
Fig. 11. Partly explored Locus 18 with oval
ovens. Square 36166. Late Ninevite 5
period (Photo A. Reiche)
2 Three oval ovens with tannurs next to them were discovered also in the southern part of square 36/66 (Loci 10-12), but
it is not clear whether they were inside a room or by a wall in the corner of a courtyard. Two other features — round one
in Locus 11, square 35/64, and semicircular one in Locus 64, square 36/64 — have been recorded, but it cannot be
determined in these cases whether they were ovens or hearths lined with low walls.
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