DOI article:
Bieliński, Piotr: The first campaign of excavations on Tell Rad Shaqrah (Hasake Southern Dam Basin)
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were constructed of courses of headers altemating with courses of
stretchers; the walls were of an average thickness of about 0.5 m.
Most of the houses contained domestic equipment like tannurs,
plastered basins and quems. In one of the dwellings, situated in the
eastem part of area B, a III rd millennium B. C. child burial was
found. The skeleton was put in a box made of mudbricks set on
side and was accompanied by a small giobular jar of Metallic
Ware. Another interesting discovery was made in the southem part
of the trench, where a small sculpture of iimestone was found. It
was an almost regular cuboid with one carefully flattened side on
which a representation of a human face was carved in shallow
relief (Fig. 2). The representation with its prominent eyes, nose and
a very rich hairdo resembles in many ways the eye-idols from Tell
Brak. In the vicinity of the idol a small limestone figurine
representing a goat decorated with small circles was also found.
Of the third occupational stratum
mostly the tops of the walls were
unearthed. Only in the southeastem
part of the trench were floors
belonging to this layer reached.
As said above, all three strata
investigated in this part of the tell
should be dated to the later part of the
III rd millennium B.C.
The third and the last of the areas
explored this year on Tell Rad Shaqrah
occupied the westem slope of the
mound. It was labelled Area C. One
large trench measuring 9.5 x 9.5 m was
opened there. Like in Area B, also here
the remains of a dwelling quarter were
uncovered. They were represented by
two consecutive architectural strata.
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ilcm
Fig. 2. The marble eye-idoi
found in Area B.
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stretchers; the walls were of an average thickness of about 0.5 m.
Most of the houses contained domestic equipment like tannurs,
plastered basins and quems. In one of the dwellings, situated in the
eastem part of area B, a III rd millennium B. C. child burial was
found. The skeleton was put in a box made of mudbricks set on
side and was accompanied by a small giobular jar of Metallic
Ware. Another interesting discovery was made in the southem part
of the trench, where a small sculpture of iimestone was found. It
was an almost regular cuboid with one carefully flattened side on
which a representation of a human face was carved in shallow
relief (Fig. 2). The representation with its prominent eyes, nose and
a very rich hairdo resembles in many ways the eye-idols from Tell
Brak. In the vicinity of the idol a small limestone figurine
representing a goat decorated with small circles was also found.
Of the third occupational stratum
mostly the tops of the walls were
unearthed. Only in the southeastem
part of the trench were floors
belonging to this layer reached.
As said above, all three strata
investigated in this part of the tell
should be dated to the later part of the
III rd millennium B.C.
The third and the last of the areas
explored this year on Tell Rad Shaqrah
occupied the westem slope of the
mound. It was labelled Area C. One
large trench measuring 9.5 x 9.5 m was
opened there. Like in Area B, also here
the remains of a dwelling quarter were
uncovered. They were represented by
two consecutive architectural strata.
<> I
ilcm
Fig. 2. The marble eye-idoi
found in Area B.
83