Tell Feyda
تل فيضة · Feyda · Tell Feyda (Hasakah)
Halaf–Ubaid (c.5700–4200 BCE)·Halaf → Ubaid northern·🇸🇾 Hasakah Governorate, upper Khabur headwaters, Syria
About
About Tell Feyda
Halaf–Ubaid headwaters tell, 1 ha, 7 m high, 6th mill. BCE (c.5700–4200 BCE). Halaf geometric painted houses (tholoi remnant), Ubaid dark-faced ware and stamp seals. Small but pristine Halaf village at Khabur source springs, excavated soundings 2005–08 by N. Balkan-Atlı/D. Binder shows wetland fishing/fowling, obsidian from Van and Bingöl. Abandoned at Ubaid–Uruk transition. Part of Tell Seker–Feyda headwaters micro-region documenting Halaf north expansion.
Why it mattersHeadwaters Halaf type-site; Khabur source settlement model.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Why springs chosen over Khabur plain?
Theories
- 01Headwaters eco-refuge model
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.5700 BCE Halaf hamlet
- Period
- Halaf–Ubaid (c.5700–4200 BCE)
- Culture
- Halaf → Ubaid northern
- Builders
- Khabur headwaters farmers
- Purpose
- Spring-head farming and wetland hamlet
- Abandoned
- c.4200 BCE
- Rediscovered
- 2005 Halaf survey
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c.5700 BCE
Halaf tholoi village founded
c.4800 BCE
Ubaid expansion
c.4200 BCE
Abandoned
On the ground
Structures & features
37.0000° N · 41.1000° E · 460 m · 3 mapped features
Tell Feyda — Halaf tholos
houseTholos house with painted plaster
37.0005° N · 41.1000° ETell Feyda — Ubaid stamp seal cache
cacheUbaid seals in storage room
37.0000° N · 41.1005° ETell Feyda — Spring wetland edge
middenFish-mollusc midden at paleospring
36.9995° N · 41.0995° E