Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Neolithic, Transitional Neolithic-Halaf, Early Bronze Age-Halaf, Middle Assyrian period
Site notes
Excavation dates
2002–ongoing
Archaeologists
C. Castel, N. Awad, Peter Akkermans
Condition
ruins
Management
Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums
Public access
Yes
Tell Sabi Abyad (Arabic: تل صبي أبيض) is an archaeological site in the Balikh River valley in northern Syria. It lies about 2 kilometers south of Tell Hammam et-Turkman.The site consists of four prehistoric mounds that are numbered Tell Sabi Abyad I to IV. Extensive excavations showed that these sites were inhabited already around 7500 to 5500 BC, although not always at the same time; the settlement shifted back and forth among these four sites.[1]
The earliest pottery of Syria was discovered here; it dates at ca. 6900-6800 BC, and consists of mineral-tempered, and sometimes painted wares.
TellSabiAbyad (Arabic: تل صبي أبيض) is an archaeological site in the Balikh River valley in northern Syria. It lies about 2 kilometers south of Tell...
TellAbyad is a town in northern Syria. It is the administrative center of the TellAbyad District within the Raqqa Governorate. Located along the Balikh...
the precursor to the Mesopotamian culture of the Ubaid period. At TellSabiAbyad and other Late Neolithic sites in Syria, scholars adopt increasingly...
valley of the Balikh River, there exists an archaeological site called TellSabiAbyad. "General Census of Population and Housing 2004" (PDF) (in Arabic)...
Subdistrict, in Syria with TellAbyad as its administrative centre TellSabiAbyad, an archaeological site in northern Syria Wadi al-Abyad or al-Ubayyid, a wadi...
Ubaid period although it is extremely rare. The "Burnt Village" at TellSabiAbyad could be suggestive of destruction during war but it could also have...
Akkadian: irîtu) was a Sumerian city located at Tell Abu Shahrain (Arabic: تل أبو شهرين), also Abu Shahrein or Tell Abu Shahrayn, an archaeological site in southern...
very oldest pottery of TellSabiAbyad (and of Syria), 7000-6700 BC Archived 2015-07-23 at the Wayback Machine http://www.sabi-abyad.nl "Syro-Japanese Archaeological...
Other early PPNA sites dating to around 9500–9000 BC have been found in Tell es-Sultan (ancient Jericho), Israel (notably Ain Mallaha, Nahal Oren, and...
in the Middle East comes from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic phases of TellSabiAbyad II and Çatalhöyük. Although no actual basketry remains were recovered...
is named after the type site of Tell Hassuna in Iraq. Other sites where Hassuna material has been found include Tell Shemshara. The decoration of pottery...
Valley in northern Syria, where some twenty-four sites, including TellSabiAbyad, have been discovered. The inhabitants of these villages belonged to...
existing Mitanni tower and residence) Assyrian administrative centre at TellSabiAbyad. The Babylonian Kings List A names the Assyrian ruler Sennacherib (705–681...
Tell Aswad (Arabic: تل أسود, "Hill Black"), Su-uk-su or Shuksa, is a large prehistoric, neolithic tell, about 5 hectares (540,000 sq ft) in size, located...
the Pre-pottery Neolithic B, Neolithic, Halaf and Bronze Age site of TellSabiAbyad, including surveys of the Balikh Valley area in northern Syria. He...
(goats, sheep, cattle and pigs) were not found until the sixth millennium at Tell Ramad. Hole concluded that "close attention should be paid in future investigations...
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