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The pots and potters of Assyria : technology and organization of

production, ceramics sequence and vessel function at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria

Duistermaat, K.

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Duistermaat, K. (2007, March 21). The pots and potters of Assyria : technology and

organization of production, ceramics sequence and vessel function at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/11416

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Chapter I illustrations

Fig. I.1: Map of Syria, showing the location of the kingdoms of Assyria and Hanigalbat in the 13th-12th century BC and the site of Tell Sabi Abyad.

Assyria

Syria

Iraq Turkey

Jordan Lebanon

Euphra tes

Bal

ikh

Khabur

Tigris Hanigalbat

Damascus

Ugarit

Sidon

Tell Sabi Abyad

Tell Sheikh Hamad Tell Chuera Tell Brak

Raqqa Aleppo

Tell Hamidiya Tell Fakhariya

Carchemish

Hatti

Tell Bderi Harran

Approximate border of Assyria in the 13th and 12th centuries BC 250 mm isohyet in modern times

borders of the modern states

Damascus

Tell Sabi Abyad

Assyria Syria

Balikh

modern city archaeological site ancient state name modern state name river

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443 Chapter I illustrations

Hammam et-Turkman

Tell es-Semen Tell Sahlan

Tell Jittal

Tell Sabi Abyad

Tell Bi'a

Tell es-Semen / Gilma?

Tell Sahlan / Sahlalu Tell Jittal / Dunnu-Dagal?

Tell Sabi Abyad / Dunnu

Tell Bi'a / Tuttul Khirbet esh-Shenef BS 161

Tell Abyad / Dunnu-Ashur?

Abbara / Serda?

BS 106 BS 199 BS 200

BS 296

Hammam et-Turkman

Fig. I.2a: Settlement patterns in the Balikh val- ley in the 14th century BC (after Lyon 2000:

fig. 4).

Fig. I.2b: Settlement patterns in the Balikh

valley in the 13th and 12th centuries BC (after

Lyon 2000: fig. 7), including possible identifi-

cations with Assyrian place names. The catch-

ment area of Sabi Abyad is indicated by a red

circle (after Wiggermann 2000: fig. 5).

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