Tell Taya
Coordinates: 36°19′57″N 42°29′37″E / 36.332595°N 42.493712°E Tell Taya (in modern Ninawa Governorate, Iraq) was an Ancient Near East site about 20 kilometers southwest of Mosul and Nineveh.
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[edit] History
The site was heavily occupied on and off during the second half of the 3rd millennium, with some re-use in the Old Babylonian period and the Neo-Assyrian period. There is some evidence of Early Dynastic occupation, but major building at Tell Taya began around the time that the Akkadian Empire emerges. The location controls a formerly rich agricultural area and an important trade route.
[edit] Archaeology
The site was first recorded by Seton Lloyd in 1938 during his survey of the region. [1] It covers about a square kilometer and the central mound is around 9 meters high.
Tell Taya was excavated by a team from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq led by J. E. Reade in 1967-1969 and 1972-1973. [2] [3] [4] Numerous stone structures were investigated, and pottery, along with a few tablets and cylinder seals, were recovered in the 9 layers.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Seton Lloyd, Some Ancient Sites in the Sinjar District , Iraq, vol. 5, pp. 123-128, 1938
- ^ J.E. Reade, Tell Taya(1967): Summary Report, Iraq, vol. 30, no. 2. pp. 234-264, 1968
- ^ J.E. Reade, Tell Taya(1968-9): Summary Report, Iraq, vol. 33, no. 2. pp. 87-100, 19671
- ^ J.E. Reade, Tell Taya(1972-73): Summary Report, Iraq, vol. 35, no. 2. pp. 155-187, 1973
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- John Curtis, Fifty Years of Mesopotamian Discovery, the Work of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1932–1982, British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1982, ISBN 0903472058
- David Oates, The Excavations at Tell al Rimah: 1964, Iraq, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 62–68, 1965
