Tell Arpachiyah

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Tell Arpachiyah (also often known as Arpachiyah ) is a small hill near Mosul in Iraq today. It measures about 120 in diameter. Excavations (ca. 5500-5000 BC) and Ubaid Culture ( 5000-4000 BC) promoted above all settlement layers of the Halaf culture days.

In the phase of the Halaf culture here were mainly round houses, each having a rectangular cultivation. The buildings consisted partly of stone. There were few burials in settlement areas. Particularly rich was the yield of painted pottery. In fact, many of the finest works halafzeitlicher ceramics originating from that location. From layer TT6 the remains of a burned-down house, in which a rich inventory as an obsidian vessel, various other stone vessels of alabaster, limestone, serpentine and diorite were derived. Here also shell and stone beads, and clay figurines of women came to light. C- 14 dates date in the years 4980 ± 60 and 5077 ± 83 These are important data to rank the Halaf culture in general chronological order.

History of Research

The settlement mound is called after the village Arpachiyah, the ruins is also called Tepe Reshawa. In 1933, Max Mallowan by first excavations. He worked in a campaign with 180 men, and set free ten layers of habitation, where he did not reach down to the natural ground. The numbering is from the top ( TT - Top of Tepe ) down.

Another excavation by Ismail Hijara delivered in 1976 a continuous ceramic sequence of TT6 down to the natural ground. Physico-chemical studies of the ceramic and clay used showed on trade relations with neighboring settlements such as the 25 km northern Tepe Gawra.