Tell Arabid (Tell Erbid)
Early Jezirah I–III (c.3000–2200 BCE)·Ninevite-5 → Early Dynastic Jezirah·🇸🇾 Hasaka Governorate, Eastern Jazira, Syria
About
About Tell Arabid (Tell Erbid)
30-ha EB town with nine-phase Ninevite-5 through ED III defensive wall, gate with corbel vault, “Animal House” kitchen with fauna scatters, eye-idol temple and Soviet-Polish plan 7 stratified ED houses (Oymaağaç style). Tell Arabid (Tell Erbid) — Khabur Early Jezirah Walled Village context and stratigraphy linking to regional chronology.
Why it mattersTell Arabid (Tell Erbid) — Khabur Early Jezirah Walled Village
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Stratigraphic relation to neighboring cultures?
Theories
- 01Regional trade node
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Occupied Early Jezirah I–III (c.3000–2200 BCE)
- Period
- Early Jezirah I–III (c.3000–2200 BCE)
- Culture
- Ninevite-5 → Early Dynastic Jezirah
- Builders
- Local communities
- Purpose
- Planned EB walled village controlling Khabur wheat expansion
- Abandoned
- post-period
- Rediscovered
- 19th-century surveys, modern excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Early Jezirah I–III
Planned EB walled village controlling Khabur wheat expansion
On the ground
Structures & features
36.8800° N · 41.0500° E · 450 m · 2 mapped features
Corbel Vault Gate
gateEB gate with corbel-vaulted entry
36.8810° N · 41.0510° EAnimal House Kitchen Compound
workshopPreserved kitchen with animal bones and grinding stones
36.8790° N · 41.0490° E