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    Tell Halaf (Arabic: تل حلف) is an archaeological site in Al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria, a few kilometers from the city of Ras al-Ayn near the Syria–Turkey...
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    Tell Halaf Tell Brak Tell Sabi Abyad Tell Arpachiyah Tepe Gawra Chagar Bazar The Halaf culture is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100...
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    dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, he discovered the site of Tell Halaf in 1899 and conducted excavations there in 1911–13 and again in 1927–29...
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    settlements began forming in the north, such as Hassuna, Jarmo, Samarra, and Tell Halaf, the north became the important region. The architecture at Hassuna was...
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    several mounds, called tells, can be found in close proximity: Tell Fekheriye, Ras al-Ayn, and 2.5 kilometers east of Tell Halaf, site of the Aramean and...
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  • knowledge, more certainty is emerging. Tell Arpachiyah and Tepe Gawra are the sites where the transition from Halaf to Ubaid were quite abrupt. No transitional...
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  • earliest semi-independent kingdoms in northern Mesopotamia was Bît-Bahiâni (Tell Halaf). Some Georgian linguists see a connection between the Kartvelian languages...
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    Pedestal inscription, also known as the Tell Halaf inscription, was an ancient Aramaic description discovered in Tell Halaf in 1933, and published in 1940. The...
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    Museum. Halaf-type pottery seems to have been produced at specialized centers such as Tell Arpachiyah, Tell Brak, Chagar Bazar and Tell Halaf. At Tell Arpachiyah...
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  • Ugarit (redirect from Ugrarit (Tell Shamra))
    chalcolithic = RS 4 A-B (with some RS 3) Stratum 13 - 4000 - 3400 BC - Halaf chalcolithic = RS 4-C (4 A-B) Stratum 14 - c. 4000 BC - Neolithic with pottery...
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  • neutron activation analysis of Halaf and Ubaid pottery from Tell Arpachiyah and Tepe Gawra, Iraq, vol. 42, pp. 155–67, 1980 Halaf Bowl from Arpachiyah - British...
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    (1860-1946) and the French semitologist André Dupont-Sommer (1900-1983) at Tell Halaf the former Aramean city-state of Bit Bahiani which is located on the border...
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    excavated Tell es-Sakan, suggest that there were three areas of Egyptian settlement in the region: an area of permanent settlement with Tell es-Sakan as...
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    Bit Bahiani, one of the Post-Hittite states, centered in Guzana (modern Tell Halaf, in northeastern Syria). He ruled sometime in the 10th or 9th century...
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    cities Amrit Arpad Bit Bahiani Coba Höyük Gidara Hama Qarqar Ruhizzi Sam'al Tell Aran Tell Halaf Til Barsip Upu Zobah Sources Aramaic inscriptions v t e...
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    same name for the circular houses belonging to the Neolithic culture of Tell Halaf (Iraq, Syria and Turkey), there is no relationship between them. In Greece...
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    archaeological sites such as Tell Beit Mirsim, Tel Haror, Tel Sera (Ziklag) along Nahal Gerar, and Tell Jemmeh and Tell el-Far'ah (South) along Nahal...
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    Oppenheim at Tell Halaf that was purchased in 1920. More material followed from the excavations of Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in 1935–1938...
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  • Five Mountain System, a Japanese network of Zen temples (Gozan Seidō) Tell Halaf, a Syrian archeological site near the city of Guzana or Gozan This disambiguation...
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    Hall of Hama Region The Hall of Ugarit The Hall of Tell Halaf The Hall of Arslan Tash The Hall of Tell Ahmar The Hall of Ancient Statues and Cuneiform Scripts...
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    Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam) and Neo-Hittite sites (Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe). Houses are mostly known from Old Babylonian remains at Nippur...
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    disappeared from visual arts after the Bronze Age, but a relief from Tell Halaf is presumed to be a first millennium BCE example, and according to Gary...
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    portal Halaf culture Cities of the ancient Near East Fieldwork campaign: Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) universiteitleiden.nl Peter M. M. G. Akkermans. “Tell Sabi...
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    Ancient Aramean six-winged deity, from Tell Halaf (10th century BCE)...
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    time inhabited by the Canaanites. Tell es-Sakan was abadoned again about 2300 BC. Another urban center known as Tell el-Ajjul began to grow along the Wadi...
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    centuries BCE. The et-Tell site would have been easily the largest and strongest city to the east of the Jordan Valley during Iron II era. Tell Hadar is a small...
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  • Mexico) Tell Halaf, Syria, for the Halaf culture Tell Hassuna, Iraq, for the Hassuna culture Jemdet Nasr, Iraq, for the Jemdet Nasr period Tell al-'Ubaid...
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    of the hilani type buildings at the top on page 146 (fig.1 ""Tell Ta'yinat", "Tell Halaf", "Zinjirli" and "Sakje Guezi") in Podium Structures with Lateral...
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    and regions in the history of the Levant Copper Age Kish civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian...
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    city-state kingdom (c. 1200 – 808 BC) with its capital at Guzana (modern day Tell Halaf). Bit Baḫiani was ruled by King Kapara. There were at least five kings...
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