Tepe Gawra on the map of Uruk period archaeological sites in Upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia
Tepe Gawra is an ancient Mesopotamian settlement 15 miles NNE of Mosul in northwest Iraq that was occupied between 5000 and 1500 BC. It is roughly a mile from the site of Nineveh and 2 miles E of the site of Khorsabad. It contains remains from the Halaf period, the Ubaid period, and the Uruk period (4000–3100 BC). Tepe Gawra contains material relating to the Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period c. 5,500–5,000 BC.
TepeGawra is an ancient Mesopotamian settlement 15 miles NNE of Mosul in northwest Iraq that was occupied between 5000 and 1500 BC. It is roughly a mile...
Ubaid 2; pottery; Oriental Institute Museum Northern Ubaid; pottery; TepeGawra; Oriental Institute Museum Ubaid III; jar; c. 5300 – c. 4700 BC; Louvre...
Nineveh. The local name of the mound on which the site is located is Tepe Reshwa. TepeGawra is also a contemporary Neolithic site located in the Mosul region...
millennium BC. The most influential centers of Mesopotamia (Uruk and TepeGawra) saw the gradual emergence of writing and the state. Traditionally, this...
Tell Halaf Tell Brak Tell Sabi Abyad Tell Arpachiyah TepeGawra Chagar Bazar The Halaf culture is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100...
Assyriologist and translator of the Torah. He discovered the ancient site of TepeGawra in 1927 and supervised its excavation between 1931 and 1938. Speiser was...
Tell Arpachiyah a key economical hub of pottery manufacture. Another is TepeGawra. Obsidian, cedar, advancement of the potters wheel circa 4500 BC, silver...
and Nur-Adad of Larsa. Abzu Cities of the Ancient Near East Lake Hammar TepeGawra Langdon, Review of "Campbell Thompson, R 'The British Museum excavations...
snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu". At the tell of TepeGawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered...
Rothman, TepeGawra: The Evolution of a Small, Prehistoric Center in Northern Iraq, Philadelphia, 2001; P. Butterlin (ed.), A propos de TepeGawra, Le monde...
snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu". At the tell of TepeGawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered...
Billa and TepeGawra excavations in Iraq under Professor Ephraim A Speiser. Using this research, she published "The Pottery of TepeGawra" which became...
Rothman, Mitchell S. 1994. Sealings as a Control Mechanism in Prehistory: TepeGawra XI, X and VIII. In: Gil Stein & Mitchell S. Rothman (eds), Chiefdoms and...
pottery represents Period IX at Ḥasanlū Tepe, and is dated to around 5000–4500 BCE. Links with Level XVI at TepeGawra have been identified, which, in northern...
Speiser (1902–1965) Near East scholar and archaeologist, excavator of TepeGawra Edward J. Young (1907–1968), American Old Testament scholar and commentator...
same time, these scholars explored the related nearby ancient site of TepeGawra, which is located about 8 km (5.0 mi) northeast of Billa. There is some...
Kul Tepe Jolfa (Gargar Tepesi) (Kul Tapeh) is an ancient archaeological site in the Jolfa County of Iran, located in the city of Hadishahr, about 10 km...
archaeological culture. The development and culture of Nineveh paralleled TepeGawra and Tell Arpachiyah a few kilometers to the northeast. Nineveh was a typical...
the Jemdet Nasr period (c. 2900 BC). Similar objects were also found at TepeGawra (levels XII-VIII). The city rose in importance and size, exceeding 40...
تپه گنج دره; "Treasure Valley" in Persian, or "Treasure Valley Hill" if tepe/tappeh (hill) is appended to the name) is a Neolithic settlement in western...
cultural deposits are analogous to the Arpachiyah levels TT-6 to TT-8, and TepeGawra levels XVIII-XX. Three stone seal-pendants have also been found. In 1985...
with bustards. Tepe Giyan, 1800-1500 BCE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tepe Giyan. Caldwell, David H. “The Early Glyptic of Gawra, Giyan, and Susa...
specialist in the history of Assyria, who rediscovered the ancient site of TepeGawra in 1927. Carlton B. Ardery Jr., 41, American test pilot; in crash of Republic...
1940 (also as ISBN 0-226-14234-5) Speiser, E. A., "New Discoveries at TepeGawra and Khafaje", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 190–93...
TepeGawra, Telul eth-Thalathat and even Değirmentepe in Turkey. The pottery likewise had clear parallels with northern sites such as Nuzi and Tepe Gawra...
in northern Mesopotamia (Akarcay Tepe II) Reconstitution of Neolithic dwelling in northern Mesopotamia (Akarcay Tepe II) The Samarra culture is a Chalcolithic...
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