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Tell Halaf (Arabic: تل حلف) is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, a few kilometers from the city of Ras al-Ayn near the Syria–Turkey border. The site, which dates to the sixth millennium BCE, was the first to be excavated from a Neolithic culture, later called the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs.
TellHalaf (Arabic: تل حلف) is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, a few kilometers from the city of Ras al-Ayn...
TellHalafTell Brak Tell Sabi Abyad Tell Arpachiyah Tepe Gawra Chagar Bazar The Halaf culture is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100...
dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, he discovered the site of TellHalaf in 1899 and conducted excavations there in 1911–13 and again in 1927–29...
The TellHalaf inscription was an ancient Aramaic description discovered in TellHalaf in 1933, and published in 1940. The inscription was on a limestone...
earliest semi-independent kingdoms in northern Mesopotamia was Bît-Bahiâni (TellHalaf). The people of "Aram" were called "Arameans" in Assyrian text and in...
Museum. Halaf-type pottery seems to have been produced at specialized centers such as Tell Arpachiyah, Tell Brak, Chagar Bazar and TellHalaf. At Tell Arpachiyah...
same name for the circular houses belonging to the Neolithic culture of TellHalaf (Iraq, Syria and Turkey), there is no relationship between them. In Greece...
city-state kingdom (c. 1200 – 808 BC) with its capital at Guzana (modern day TellHalaf). Bit Baḫiani was ruled by King Kapara. There were at least five kings...
neutron activation analysis of Halaf and Ubaid pottery from Tell Arpachiyah and Tepe Gawra, Iraq, vol. 42, pp. 155–67, 1980 Halaf Bowl from Arpachiyah - British...
including: Asqaluna, Asdudu, Tell es-Safi, Tel Batash, Tel Burna, Tel Dor, Tel Gerisa, Tell Jemmeh, Khirbet Rabud, Tel Zeror, and Tell Abu Hawam among others...
Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam) and Neo-Hittite sites (Karkamis, TellHalaf, Karatepe). Houses are mostly known from Old Babylonian remains at Nippur...
discovered many settlements within the territory of Geshur. Excavations of et-Tell have revealed evidence of the Geshurite religious practices including high...
several mounds, called tells, can be found in close proximity: Tell Fekheriye, Ras al-Ayn, and 2.5 kilometers east of TellHalaf, site of the Aramean and...
Bit Bahiani, one of the Post-Hittite states, centered in Guzana (modern TellHalaf, in northeastern Syria). He ruled sometime in the 10th or 9th century...
Oppenheim at TellHalaf that was purchased in 1920. More material followed from the excavations of Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in 1935–1938...
Crescent, and includes archaeological sites dating to the Neolithic, such as TellHalaf. In antiquity, the area was part of the Mitanni kingdom, its centre being...
and regions in the history of the Levant Copper Age Kish civilization TellHalaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian...
archaeological sites such as Tell Beit Mirsim, Tel Haror, Tel Sera (Ziklag) along Nahal Gerar, and Tell Jemmeh and Tell el-Far'ah (South) along Nahal...
and regions in the history of the Levant Copper Age Kish civilization TellHalaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian...
urban center known as Tell el-Ajjul began to grow along the Wadi Ghazza riverbed. During the Middle Bronze Age, a revived Tell es-Sakan became the southernmost...
disappeared from visual arts after the Bronze Age, but a relief from TellHalaf is presumed to be a first millennium BCE example, and according to Gary...
BCE at Tell as-Sakan, a site located south of the present-day city, which began as an Ancient Egyptian fortress built in Canaanite territory. Tell as-Sakan...
official Hazael with gifts to Elijah's successor, Elisha. Elisha told Hazael to tell Hadadezer that he would recover, and he revealed to Hazael that the king...