Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)
Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE), peak Middle Assyrian·Mitanni Washukanni? / Sikkan Assyrian·🇸🇾 Hasaka Governorate, Northeastern Syria, Syria
About
About Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)
Spring-resurgent mound with 1.5-m deep Middle Assyrian level and 9th-c. bilingual Old Aramaic–Old Assyrian Hadad statue inscription (stated first to transcribe Akkadian into Aramaic). Acoustic well-cistern and “tower temple” atop mound, candidate for lost Mitanni capital Washukanni opposite Ras al-Ain. Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?) context and stratigraphy linking to regional chronology.
Why it mattersTell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)
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 Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE), peak Middle Assyrian
- Period
- Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE), peak Middle Assyrian
- Culture
- Mitanni Washukanni? / Sikkan Assyrian
- Builders
- Local communities
- Purpose
- Springs sanctuary of Hadad and possible Mitanni metropolis Washukanni rival
- Abandoned
- post-period
- Rediscovered
- 19th-century surveys, modern excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian
Springs sanctuary of Hadad and possible Mitanni metropolis Washukanni rival
On the ground