Tell Barri

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Tell Barri is a tell in al-Hasakah province in northeast Syria, and is there at the Nahr Jaqjaq, a tributary of the Khabur. He is identified with the ancient city of Kohath; an assignment which is considered as secured on a lintel since the discovery of an appropriate inscription. Close proximity to Tell Barri is the mighty Tell Brak. The tell rises about 30 m above the surrounding plain and has a surface area of ​​about 37 hectares. Archaeological excavations found there in the 1960s and again been held since 2006.

Tell Barri has been inhabited since the Halaf period. In the light of history, however, the place was only noticed from the early 2nd millennium BC, from which in the archives of Mari first come and historical sources to Kahát. Accordingly, it was ruled by vassals of the mario matic ruler until it fell under the influence of the obermesopotamischen Empire of Samsi -Adad I.. Capital of this kingdom was Subat - Enlil, identified with the north-east of Tell Barri located Tall Leilan. From there, the harem of the king fled to Kahát than the obermesopotamische Empire collapsed.

However, its heyday Tell Barri from the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BC As part of the kingdom of Mitanni was an important place of worship at which the weather god was worshiped Teššup. After it was conquered by the Assyrians, built Tukulti -Ninurta II a palace there. The place survived the fall of the Assyrian Empire and was populated in the following epochs up in the Arabic Middle Ages on.