• Tepe Gawra is an ancient Mesopotamian settlement 15 miles NNE of Mosul in northwest Iraq that was occupied between 5000 and 1500 BC. It is roughly a mile...
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    sites. These included the type site of Tell al-'Ubaid itself, Ur, and Tepe Gawra in the north. Since then, archaeologists found Ubaid material culture...
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  • Nineveh. The local name of the mound on which the site is located is Tepe Reshwa. Tepe Gawra is also a contemporary Neolithic site located in the Mosul region...
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    millennium BC. The most influential centers of Mesopotamia (Uruk and Tepe Gawra) saw the gradual emergence of writing and the state. Traditionally, this...
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  • Tepe Gawra The Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period or HUT (c. 5500/5400 to 5200/5000 BC) is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia. It lies chronologically between...
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  • Assyriologist and translator of the Torah. He discovered the ancient site of Tepe Gawra in 1927 and supervised its excavation between 1931 and 1938. Speiser was...
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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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    and political organisation in northern regions of Greater Mesopotamia: Tepe Gawra and Arslantepe. Subartu, XXIII, 133–146 Museibli, Najaf (2019-12-30)....
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    (Tell Beydar) Nagar (Tell Brak) Hamazi Yarim Tepe Telul eth-Thalathat Tepe Gawra Tell Arpachiyah (Tepe Reshwa) Tell Maghzaliyah Shibaniba (Tell Billa)...
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    Tell Arpachiyah a key economical hub of pottery manufacture. Another is Tepe Gawra. Obsidian, cedar, advancement of the potters wheel circa 4500 BC, silver...
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    Rothman, Tepe Gawra: The Evolution of a Small, Prehistoric Center in Northern Iraq, Philadelphia, 2001; P. Butterlin (ed.), A propos de Tepe Gawra, Le monde...
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  • snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu". At the tell of Tepe Gawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered...
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    up lapis lazuli in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Excavations from Tepe Gawra show that Lapis lazuli was introduced to Mesopotamia approximately in...
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  • Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra excavations in Iraq under Professor Ephraim A Speiser. Using this research, she published The Pottery of Tepe Gawra, which became...
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    considered complete: Abzu Cities of the Ancient Near East Lake Hammar Tepe Gawra Langdon, Review of "Campbell Thompson, R 'The British Museum excavations...
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  • Galayeri (category Leyla-Tepe culture)
    and political organisation in northern regions of Greater Mesopotamia: Tepe Gawra and Arslantepe. Subartu, XXIII, 133–146 Najaf Museibli 2014, THE GRAVE...
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    pottery represents Period IX at Ḥasanlū Tepe, and is dated to around 5000–4500 BCE. Links with Level XVI at Tepe Gawra have been identified, which, in northern...
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    Rothman, Mitchell S. 1994. Sealings as a Control Mechanism in Prehistory: Tepe Gawra XI, X and VIII. In: Gil Stein & Mitchell S. Rothman (eds), Chiefdoms and...
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  • the Jemdet Nasr period (c. 2900 BC). Similar objects were also found at Tepe Gawra (levels XII-VIII). The city rose in importance and size, exceeding 40...
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    snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu". At the tell of Tepe Gawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered...
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    Speiser (1902–1965) Near East scholar and archaeologist, excavator of Tepe Gawra Edward J. Young (1907–1968), American Old Testament scholar and commentator...
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  • sealings reflected different imagery similar to sites like Tell Brak and Tepe Gawra. Finally, in phase B2 administrative practices of the Uruk culture, including...
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  • and Tepe Gawra", Bulletin of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, vol. 3(2), pp. 59-66, 1931 "Developments at Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra",...
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  • Kul Tepe Jolfa (Gargar Tepesi) (Kul Tapeh) is an ancient archaeological site in the Jolfa County of Iran, located in the city of Hadishahr, about 10 km...
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    تپه گنج دره; "Treasure Valley" in Persian, or "Treasure Valley Hill" if tepe/tappeh (hill) is appended to the name) is a Neolithic settlement in western...
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    archaeological culture. The development and culture of Nineveh paralleled Tepe Gawra and Tell Arpachiyah a few kilometers to the northeast. Nineveh was a typical...
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    cultural deposits are analogous to the Arpachiyah levels TT-6 to TT-8, and Tepe Gawra levels XVIII-XX. Three stone seal-pendants have also been found. In 1985...
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  • 1940 (also as ISBN 0-226-14234-5) Speiser, E. A., "New Discoveries at Tepe Gawra and Khafaje", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 190–93...
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  • Tepe Gawra, Telul eth-Thalathat and even Değirmentepe in Turkey. The pottery likewise had clear parallels with northern sites such as Nuzi and Tepe Gawra...
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    temple. Göbekli tepe (Le): Göbelki Tepe (in French). CNRS Editions. p. 291. ISBN 978-2271081872. Collins, Andrew (2014). Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the...
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