Tell it-Sweyhat
The Sweyhat is a settlement mound in Syria dating from the mid to late 3rd millennium. Chr.
location
Tell is located east of Aleppo on the Euphrates , around 60 km upstream from Raqqa .
nature
The settlement hill north of Habuba Kabira consists only of temples, including the Gray Temple and the Red Temple. Jebel Aruda was not flooded by the Assad reservoir . Sweyhat dates from 3100 to 1900 BC. The area covers about 45 hectares and consists of a central, high hill, about 15 meters above the surrounding plain, and a large low hill, which is surrounded by the remains of an earth wall. Archaeological excavations took place between 1972 and 1975 through missions funded by Syria, Unesco and Great Britain.
Possibly it was the Burman mentioned in the ancient texts .
See also
literature
- Danti, Michael D. and Zettler Richard L. 2002, "Excavating an Enigma - The Latest Discoveries from Tell es-Sweyhat", Expedition 44.1 (2002), pp.36-45. pdf
- Wilkinson, TJ (ed.) [2005], Tell es-Sweyhat, Volume 1. On the Margin of the Euphrates - Settlement and Land Use at Tell es-Sweyhat and in the Upper Lake Assad Area, Syria, (with contributions by Naomi F. Miller, Clemens D. Reichel, and Donald Whitcomb), [OIP 124], Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 2005. ISBN 1885923295 pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=15960&all=1&noglimit=1
- ↑ Le Moyen Euphrate , Verlag Brill Archive, page 127ff ( online in the Google book search)