Verified36.7800° N · 41.0000° E · 340 m
Tell Arabid — Khabur Ceramic Production Mound
Ninevite 5–Uruk (3200–3000 BCE)·Ninevite 5·🇸🇾 Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria
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About Tell Arabid — Khabur Ceramic Production Mound
Tell Arabid — Khabur Ceramic Production Mound in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Ninevite 5–Uruk (3200–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Ninevite 5. Mound with Ninevite 5 pottery kilns 3.5 m deep at Khabur headwaters. Tell Arabid Ninevite 5 kilns with Late Chalcolithic 4 eye idols.
Why it mattersKey Ninevite 5 stratigraphic tell for Syro-Mesopotamian sequence
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Halaf–Ubaid transition
- 02Neo-Assyrian administration
Theories
- 01Pottery kiln seriation
- 02Trade route monitoring
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 3200 BCE
- Period
- Ninevite 5–Uruk (3200–3000 BCE)
- Culture
- Ninevite 5
- Purpose
- Mound with Ninevite 5 pottery kilns 3.5 m deep at Khabur headwaters
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 3200 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1920 CE
Modern survey
On the ground
Structures & features
36.7800° N · 41.0000° E · 340 m · 3 mapped features
Tell Arabid — Khabur Ceramic Production Mound — Citadel High Mound
citadelCitadel
36.7801° N · 41.0001° ETell Arabid — Khabur Ceramic Production Mound — Lower Town Pottery Kilns
kilnsKiln area
36.7798° N · 41.0002° ETell Arabid — Khabur Ceramic Production Mound — Stela / Orthostat Field
stelaStela area
36.7804° N · 40.9998° E