al-Rawda

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Al- Rawda (Arabic: الروضة ) was a Bronze Age settlement with an area of ​​12 hectares intra muros in the nowadays dry Syrian steppe. The site is located approximately 100 km east of Hama and about 70 km northeast of Qatna (Tell Mishrife ).

The settlement period amounts to the last third of the 3rd millennium to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC On the surface, layers of the Early Bronze Age IV are found. The settlement was discovered in 1996 and examined in detail by the Franco - Syrian Archaeological Mission. 2002 and the following years were held digs. The mission also led surveys in the micro-region al - Rawdas ( within 100 km ²) by. Al- Rawda was with several methods being investigated, including with aerial photography and satellite images.

The settlement was built in a circular shape seems to be a fortification ( city walls), a necropolis on the western end of the mound and a two- to three -acre lower town in the east exhibit. In the necropolis to 2004, about 97 graves were discovered. Among these were 54 shaft tombs, circular tombs and 25 cist tombs, and a tumulus, which had raubgeplündert.

Ceramic genres

Compared with ceramics from Qatna, Hama and Ebla is likely to be close to a settlement period al - Rawdas in the second third of the 3rd millennium.