Tell Halaf (Arabic: تل حلف) is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, a few kilometers from the city of Ras al-Ayn...
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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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Max von Oppenheim (section Excavations at Tell-Halaf)
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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The Tell Halaf inscription was an ancient Aramaic description discovered in Tell Halaf in 1933, and published in 1940. The inscription was on a limestone...
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Prehistory of Mesopotamia (section The Halaf culture)
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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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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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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earliest semi-independent kingdoms in northern Mesopotamia was Bît-Bahiâni (Tell Halaf). The people of "Aram" were called "Arameans" in Assyrian text and in...
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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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(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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