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TELL ARBID

SYRIA

considering the fact that all other Ninevite 5
areas so far investigated on Tell Arbid have
yielded only a few dozen such impressions.
Following this season’s fieldwork in
Sector W-East, it has become clear that after
the temple was abandoned this part of the
Ninevite town on Tell Arbid was turned into
a dump for ashes (whence came most of the
bullae). This period of abandonment could

not have lasted long, however, because the
region again became a site for building
activities during the phase of Ninevite 5
culture characterized by excised pottery. The
new houses often used remnants of older
walls as foundations. It is not clear whether
the ash dumps were rubbish or an intentional
deposit to level the area under new
structures.


Fig 22. Late Ninevite 5 period room with internal buttresses to the northwest of the Southern Temple
(Photo A. Reiche)

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Matthews, R. (ed.)
2003 Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994-1996, Excavations at TellBrak,
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