Tell Hazna II
Tell Hazna · Hazna II
Ubaid to Ninevite 5 (c.5000–2800 BCE)·Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk-related → Ninevite 5·🇸🇾 Hasaka Governorate, Upper Khabur, Syria
About
About Tell Hazna II
Ubaid–Late Chalcolithic tell on the Wadi Khanzir, Russian-Syrian excavations by Rauf Munchaev. Spectacular Ubaid painted temple terrace (c.4500 BCE) with tripartite shrine, niched façade and sealings, overlain by Late Chalcolithic Uruk-related levels.
Why it mattersKey Hasaka Governorate, Upper Khabur sequence for Ubaid to Ninevite 5 (c.5000–2800 BCE); village shrine centre with ubaid temple terrace.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology of Tell Hazna II relative to neighbouring centres?
Theories
- 01Regional centre hypothesis for Hasaka Governorate
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Northern Ubaid c.5000 BCE
- Period
- Ubaid to Ninevite 5 (c.5000–2800 BCE)
- Culture
- Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk-related → Ninevite 5
- Builders
- Ubaid communities
- Purpose
- Village shrine centre with Ubaid temple terrace
- Rediscovered
- 20th century survey
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
1960
Foundation/earliest horizon
1980
Major excavations
2020
Conservation/monitoring
On the ground
Structures & features
36.8500° N · 41.2800° E · 370 m · 2 mapped features
Ubaid temple terrace
templeTripartite temple on mudbrick terrace with niched façade
36.8502° N · 41.2803° ESealings deposit
depositUbaid stamp-seal impressions from temple archive
36.8498° N · 41.2797° E