Tell Hammam et Turkman
Coordinates: 36 ° 28 ′ 56 ″ N , 39 ° 3 ′ 25 ″ E
Tell Hammam et-Turkman is an archaeological excavation site in the Belich Valley in Northern Syria , not far from the Tell Sabi Abyad site and around 80 km north of the city of ar-Raqqa . The Tell lies on the left bank of the Belich and has a diameter of 500 m and is 45 m high. 500 m north is the modern village of Damešliyye.
The site was archaeologically examined by the Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden . Traces of settlement from the pre-ceramic Neolithic to the Roman and Parthian times can be identified. A total of ten settlement strata can be distinguished. The focus of research activities was on the layers of the Middle Bronze Age . Hammam et-Turkman is also known for a monumental building from the Uruk period . In the strata there are from 1200 BC A settlement gap for almost a millennium before the place was repopulated as a garrison place.
The historical name of the settlement is unknown. The original assumption that it could be the city of Zalpa , known from clay tablets , has not yet been confirmed.
literature
- Maurits N. van Loon (Ed.), Hammam et-Turkman I, Istanbul 1988.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter MMG Akkermans : An updated chronology for the northern ubaid and late chalcolithic periods in Syria, new evidence Tell Hammam et-Turkman . In: Iraq . 50, 1988, pp. 109-146.
- ^ JL Miller: The location of Nihriya and its disassociation from Na'iri . In: HD Baker (Ed.): Stories of long ago . Münster 2012, p. 351 f.