Tell Arpachiyah
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Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia , ancient Egypt, ancient Iran The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia...
prehistoric site about 4 miles from Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq....
. The proper name of the site is Tepe Reshwa.
History
The site was occupied in the Halaf and Ubaid periods. It appearsto have been heavily involved in the manufacture of pottery. The pottery
recovered there formed the basis of the internal chronology of the Halaf period.
Archaeology
Tell Arpachiyah is a small mound with a maximum diameter of 67 meters and a peak height of 5.5 meters. The full site has a diameter of around 125 meters. After being scouted by Reginald Campbell ThompsonReginald Campbell Thompson
Reginald Campbell Thompson was a British archaeologist, assyriologist, and cuneiformist. He excavated at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo and Carchemish among many other sites.He was born in Kensington, and educated at Colet Court, St...
in 1928, it was excavated by Max Mallowan
Max Mallowan
Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie.-Life and work:...
and John Cruikshank Rose of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
British School of Archaeology in Iraq
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq is the only body in Britain devoted to research into the ancient civilizations and languages of Mesopotamia....
, along with Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
in 1933.
Additional soundings were conducted in 1976 by a team led by Ismail Hijara.
Several Halaf strucutures were uncovered, including tholoi and the
"Burnt House". An array of Halaf pottery and sealings were also found,
along with some Ubaid burials.
