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| Tell Arpachiyah | |
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| Tepe Reshwa | |
  Location within Iraq | |
| 36°22′17″N 43°11′52″E / 36.37139°N 43.19778°E | |
| Type | tell |
| Location | Nineveh Province, Iraq |
| Region | Northern Mesopotamia |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1933, 1976 |
| Archaeologists | M. Mallowan, J. Cruikshank Rose, I. Hijara |
Tell Arpachiyah (outside modern Mosul in Ninawa Governorate Iraq) is a prehistoric archaeological site in Nineveh Province (Iraq). It takes its name from a more recent village located about 4 miles (6.4 km) from 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.
Archaeology
[edit]Tell Arpachiyah is a small tell, or settlement mound, with a maximum diameter of 67 metres (220 ft) and a peak height of 5.5 metres (18 ft). The full site has a diameter of around 125 metres (410 ft). After being scouted by Reginald Campbell Thompson in 1928, it was excavated by Max Mallowan and John Cruikshank Rose of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, along with Agatha Christie, in 1933. A cemetery was excavated with grave goods being only utilitarian pottery vessels.[1] Additional soundings were conducted in 1976 by a team led by Ismail Hijara.[2][3] Several Halaf structures were uncovered, including tholoi and the "Burnt House". An array of Halaf pottery and sealings were also found, along with an Ubaid cemetery containing 50 graves.[4] Two 5th millennium BCsmall cone counting tokens were found.[5] A faience seal, glazed steatite and faience beads, and Halaf period human painted figurines were also found.[6][7] A Halaf period vase depicted an archer carrying a quiver and hunting a crouched lioness.[8]
Occupation history
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The site was occupied in the Halaf and Ubaid periods. It appears to have been heavily involved in the manufacture of pottery. The pottery recovered there forms the basis for the internal chronology of the Halaf period.
Gallery
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Obsidian jewelry. It is unknown whether they were sewn to clothing or they were joined together to make a necklace, bangle, or belt. 6000-5000 BC
Jar. The surface is painted with lustrous black paint on a salmon-pink slip. Halaf period, 6000-5000 BC
Bowl. The bowl was found fragmented and the pieces were scattered over the floor. 6000-5000 BC
Shallow plate. The interior is decorated with a floral design in the center, with polychrome in black and red on the buff surfaces. 6000-5000 BC
Sherd. The exterior is painted with a design; lustrous black paint on apricot-coloured clay with a burnished surface. The design of spotted animals possibly represents leopards
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Max Mallowan, John Cruikshank Rose, "Excavations at Tall Arpachiyah 1933", Iraq, vol. 2, pp. 1-178, 1935
- ↑ Ismail H. Hijara, "Arpachiyah 1976", Iraq, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 131-154, 1980
- ↑ Ismail Hijara, "Three New Graves at Arpachiyah", World Archaeology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 125-128, 1978
- ↑ Mallowan, M. E. L., and Hilda Linford, "Rediscovered Skulls from Arpachiyah", Iraq, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 49–58, 1969
- ↑ Friberg, Jöran, "Preliterate counting and accounting in the Middle East: A constructively critical review of Schmandt-Besserat's Before Writing", Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, vol. 89, no. 5-6, pp. 477-502, 1994
- ↑ Finkenstaedτ, Elizabeth, "Beads at Badari", Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 110.1, pp. 27-29, 1983
- ↑ Rathjens, Carl, "Die unlokalisierten Funde", Teil 2 Die unlokalisierten Funde, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 39-94, 1955
- ↑ Cifarelli, M., & Castelluccia, M., "Metal Quivers from Hasanlu", Iran and the Caucasus, 27(1), pp, 1-21, 2023
Further reading
[edit]- Catherine Breniquet, "A Propos Du Vase Halafien de La Tombe G2 de Tell Arpachiyah", Iraq, vol. 54, pp. 69–78, 1992
- Hijara, Ismail. The Halaf Period in Northern Mesopotamia, Nabu, 1997, ISBN 1-897750-06-4
- Melville, Duncan J., "Aspects of symmetry in Arpachiyah pottery", Renaissance Banff: Mathematics, Music, Art, Culture, 2005
- Stuart Campbell, The Burnt House at Arpachiyah: A Reexamination, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 318, pp. 1–40, 2000
- Peter M. M. G. Akkermans, Glenn M. Schwartz, The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c. 16,000-300 BC), Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-79666-0
- T. Davidson and H. McKerrell, The neutron activation analysis of Halaf and Ubaid pottery from Tell Arpachiyah and Tepe Gawra, Iraq, vol. 42, pp. 155–67, 1980
- Perkins, Caroline, and Patrick Sean Quinn. "Investigating Local Identity and Regional Connections in the Halaf and Ubaid Periods of Tell Arpachiyah, Iraq: Evidence from Fine Ware and Utilitarian Pottery", Iraq: Evidence from Fine Ware and Utilitarian Pottery, 2026
- Stein, D. L., "Architecture and Acoustic Resonance: The ‘Tholoi’at Arpachiyah Reconsidered within a Wider Neolithic Horizon", Distant Impressions: The Senses in the Ancient Near East, University Park, PA Eisenbrauns, pp. 125-38, 2019
- Von Wickede, Alwo, "Chalcolithic sealings from Arpachiyah in the collection of the Institute of Archaeology", London. UCL Press, 1991
External links
[edit]- Halaf Bowl from Arpachiyah - British Museum
- Snake image on Pottery from Arpachiyah - British Museum
- Pre-Historic Tell Arpachiyah --- The History of the Ancient Near East
- Excavations in Northern Mesopotamia - Nature volume 131, pages 685–686 (13 May 1933)
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