Tell Rad Shaqrah

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Tell Rad Shaqrah (Near East)
Alternative nameTell Rad Shaqrah
Location Al-Hasakah Governorate , Syria
Region Upper Mesopotamia
Coordinates 36°28′4.202″N40°49′57.493″E / 36.46783389°N 40.83263694°E / 36.46783389; 40.83263694
Type tell
Site notes
Excavation dates1991-1995
ArchaeologistsPiotr Bieliński

Tell Rad Shaqrah (Tell Rad Shaqra, Tell Rad Shaqurah) was a fortified rural settlement in Syria, in ancient Upper Mesopotamia. [1] It is located on the northern bank of the Khabur River, about 15 kilometers from Hassake (Al-Hasaka). [2]

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Tell Rad Shaqrah covers an area of about 1 hectare and rises to 6 meters above the plain. The site was excavated in 1991–1995 as part of the Western Hassake Dam Project, an international salvage project organized by the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums. The expedition from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw was directed by Piotr Bieliński. Earlier in the framework of the same project, Polish archaeologists conducted research at the sites of Tell Djassa and Tell Abu Hafur. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

The tell measures 140 by 120 meters and is 8 meters high. [2] Nine settlement layers were identified during the excavations. [1] The oldest remains date to the Halaf period; the settlement expanded in the Early Dynastic III period (mid-3rd millennium BC); the youngest phases date to the Neo-Assyrian period. [7] The settlement was encircled by a 4-meter-thick wall built of mud-brick, with thick (more than 6 meters) buttresses faced with basalt blocks. [1] This type of fortification is called glacis. Thirty-four graves of children and adults, as well as infants, were uncovered. They included pit graves, graves in stone setting, and infant burials in kitchen vessels. The child burials yielded the richest and most diverse grave furnishings, consisting of vessels as well as jewelry made of bronze, stone, shells, and other materials. [8] The finds included zoomorphic beads and pendants. [8] [9] Finds also included 19 Third-millennium BC clay figurines (9 anthropomorphic and 10 zoomorphic). [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tell Rad Shaqrah". pcma.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  2. 1 2 3 Piotr Bieliński, "The first campaign of excavations on Tell Rad Shaqrah (Hassake Southern Dam Basin)", Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, vol. 3, pp. 77–85, 1992
  3. ↑ Bieliński, Piotr, "Tell Rad Shaqrah 1993", Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, vol. 5, pp. 154-163, 1994
  4. ↑ Bieliński, Piotr, "Tell Rad Shaqrah 1992 – The Fifth Season of Explorations in Northeast Syria", Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, IV, pp. 119–127
  5. ↑ Bieliński, Piotr, "Tell Rad Shaqrah 1994", Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, VI, pp. 109–117, 1995
  6. ↑ Koliński, R., "Tell Rad Shaqrad 1991–1995", OrEx 1996/3, pp. 67–69, 1996
  7. ↑ Bieliński, P., "Tell Rad Shaqrah. Excavations 1995", Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, vol. 7, pp. 160-170, 1996
  8. 1 2 Szeląg, Dariusz (2002). "Zwierzyniec szakrański. Zawieszki i paciorki zoomorficzne z grobów dziecięcych na stanowisku Tell Rad Shaqrah (Syria)" (PDF). Światowit. 4 (45).
  9. ↑ Szeląg, Dariusz (2014). "Amulets? On the possible function of zoomorphic pendants from child burials in Tell Rad Shaqrah (Syria)" (PDF). Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. 23/2.
  10. ↑ Makowski, Maciej, "Third-millennium BC clay figurines from Tell Djassa el Gharbi, Tell Abu Hafur and Tell Rad Shaqrah (Syria)", Ägypten und Levante. Internationale Zeitschrift für ägyptische Archäologie und deren Nachbargebiete. Egypt and the Levant. International Journal for Egytian Archaeology and Related Disciplines, no. 28, pp. 461-482, 2018
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