DOI Artikel:
Bieliński, Piotr: Tell Rad Shaqrah 1994
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26424#0119
Houses of a type similar to the structures unearthed in the lower
strata of areas "B" and "C" were also found here. The latter had
internal buttresses, many installations of a domestic nature and
finely plastered walls. Fragments of such a single-roomed house
(/ocMJ 65/D), which was at least 4.5 m long and at least 3.3 m
wide, were discovered in the fifth stratum in the eastern part of
area "D". The only complete structure to be exposed this year in
this trench was found in its southwestern part, in the third layer.
A large-single roomed house, labelled as 37/D, it measured
4.7 x 3.6 m, and was roughly rectangular. It had six internal
buttresses (pairs were set on the longer walls and singular
buttresses on the shorter ones) and a doorway with a stone
threshold led to the adjacent street. Clay banquettes ran along some
of the walls of this house. At a certain point the walls of the house
collapsed burying all the installations. The debris yielded a bronze
knife, a flint arrowhead, 6 vessels and several stone grinders,
pestles and querns.
In area "D" some further 12 m of the "city-wall" were
cleared, although only on the inside, the exterior face having been
almost completely destroyed by modern canals bringing water from
the Khabour. It is clear, nevertheless, that the defences protected
the northern part of the 3^ millennium B.C. settlement.
The results of the fourth season of excavations have helped
to resolve many stratigraphical problems and have cleared up the
issue of the rural or urban character of the Early Dynastic
settlement on Rad Shaqrah. It would seem that at this time Rad
Shaqrah was rather a small town than a village, even if the
majority of its population was engaged in agriculture.
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strata of areas "B" and "C" were also found here. The latter had
internal buttresses, many installations of a domestic nature and
finely plastered walls. Fragments of such a single-roomed house
(/ocMJ 65/D), which was at least 4.5 m long and at least 3.3 m
wide, were discovered in the fifth stratum in the eastern part of
area "D". The only complete structure to be exposed this year in
this trench was found in its southwestern part, in the third layer.
A large-single roomed house, labelled as 37/D, it measured
4.7 x 3.6 m, and was roughly rectangular. It had six internal
buttresses (pairs were set on the longer walls and singular
buttresses on the shorter ones) and a doorway with a stone
threshold led to the adjacent street. Clay banquettes ran along some
of the walls of this house. At a certain point the walls of the house
collapsed burying all the installations. The debris yielded a bronze
knife, a flint arrowhead, 6 vessels and several stone grinders,
pestles and querns.
In area "D" some further 12 m of the "city-wall" were
cleared, although only on the inside, the exterior face having been
almost completely destroyed by modern canals bringing water from
the Khabour. It is clear, nevertheless, that the defences protected
the northern part of the 3^ millennium B.C. settlement.
The results of the fourth season of excavations have helped
to resolve many stratigraphical problems and have cleared up the
issue of the rural or urban character of the Early Dynastic
settlement on Rad Shaqrah. It would seem that at this time Rad
Shaqrah was rather a small town than a village, even if the
majority of its population was engaged in agriculture.
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