Tall Leilan

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Coordinates: 36 ° 57 ′ 33.6 ″  N , 41 ° 30 ′ 13.1 ″  E

Relief Map: Syria
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Syria

Tall Leilan (also Tell Leilan ) is a tell in the Chabur triangle , in north-east Syria . The settlement was from the Chalcolithic in the 5th millennium BC to around 1700 BC. Inhabited. It reached its peak in the late 3rd millennium BC. Under the name Šeḫna and around 1800 BC. Under Šamši-Adad I as the capital of his Upper Mesopotamian Empire under the new name Šubat-Enlil .

View of Tall Leilan

exploration

The Tall Leilan mound has been excavated since 1979 by archaeologists from Yale University , led by Harvey Weiss . During these investigations, among other things, a clay tablet archive comprising 1,100 texts was found, which provides an insight into political and economic relationships in the 18th century BC. Allows. The findings from Tell Leilan are on display in the Deir ez-Zor museum.

literature

  • Harvey Weiss: Excavations at Tell Leilan and the Origins of North Mesopotamian cities in the Third Millennium BC In: Paléorient , Vol. 9/2, 1983, pp. 39-52.
  • Harvey Weiss: Tell Leilan and Shubat Enlil. In: Annales de Recherches Interdisciplinaires , Vol. 4, 1985, pp. 269-292.
  • Farouk Ismail: Old Babylonian economic documents from Tall Leilān (Syria). Diss. Tübingen 1991.
  • Claudine Adrienne Vincente: The 1987 Tell Leilan Tablets Dated by the Limmu of Habil-kinu. Diss. Yale 1991.
  • Peter Akkermans, Glenn Schwartz: The Archeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c. 16,000-300 BC). Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-79666-0
  • Jesper Eidem: The Royal Archives from Tell Leilan: Old Babylonian Letters and Treaties from the Lower Town Palace East (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Osten te Leiden 117). Leiden 2011. ISBN 978-90-6258-328-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Jesper Eidem, with a contribution by Lauren Ristvet and Harvey Weiss: The Royal Archives from Tell Leilan. Old Babylonian Letters and Treaties from the Lower Town Palace East (PIHANS 117). The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, 2011.