Tell

In archeology, the Arabic word Tell or tall or referred Tel (Arabic تل, DMG Tall, hill ', meaning: settlement mound ) a survey, which was created by repeated colonization, such as the citadel of Aleppo in Syria.

Identification and occurrence

In Hebrew it is called Tells tel ( תל ), in Turkish or Höyük Höyük, in Persian Tepe or Tappa, in Greek Magoula ( in northern Greece also called Macedonia Toumba ), Romanian and Bulgarian Magura Mogila (actually grave mound ). Com is the name in Egypt and northern Sudan. The mentioned also in South East Europe Tellsiedlung prehistoric hill is living in Denmark Byhøj (literally city hill ) called.

Tells arise in areas where mud brick or rammed earth ( pisé ) is the principal building material, the rainfall is low and settlements will be built over a long period of time and again in one place. They are found throughout the Middle East, in Europe, in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania ( Neolithic settlement Pietrele, with the Tell Măgura Gorgana ) and in parts of Hungary (as in Jászberény ) and Serbia, but not here reach the height as about in Iraq. One of the largest known Tells located in the city of Arbil ( Arbela ) in Kurdistan ( Arbil Citadel ).

In Europe, Tells formed mainly during the Neolithic and Eneolithic. In the Great Hungarian Plain Tells emerged only between 5500-4500 BC, for the following Tiszapolgár Eneolithic culture scattered flat settlements were typical.

In contrast to Tell, which is grown by settlement debris deposited over time on an artificial hill called the Arabic word qal ʿ a, according to Turkish kale, one built on a natural hill settlement.

Examples

Tell

The following places and archaeological sites are designated with tell or tepe: (alphabetical by main name )

• Tall Abila, Jordan
• Tell Abu Habbah, the historic city of Sippar in Iraq
• Tell Abu Shah clean, Mesopotamia, the archaeological site of Eridu
• Tell Ahmar, today Til Barsip, Assyrian Kar - Shalmaneser in Mesopotamia
• Tell Afar, Iraq
• Tel Akko, Israel
• Tel Arad, the ancient Arad in southern Israel
• Tell Arqa, Lebanon, diggings at Arqa
• Tell Asmar, Mesopotamia
• Tel Aviv, actually Tell Qasile
• Tell el- Balamun, Egypt
• Tell Balata, Shechem in Palestine
• Tell Barri, Syria, near Tell Brak
• Tell Bashir, Turkey, prehistoric settlement hill with a medieval fortress Turbessel
• Tall Bazi, Syria
• Tel Beersheba, Israel
• Tell Beydar, Nabada, Syria
• Tell Bi'a, the ancient Tuttul, Syria on the Euphrates
• Tell Bismaya, Iraq, see Adab
• Tell Brak, Nagar, Syria, on Khabur
• Tell el- Burak, on the coast south of Sidon in Lebanon
• Tell Chuera, excavation in Syria
• Tel ed- Duwer, Israel, the ancient city of Lachish
• Tell el- Chulefi, Ezion Geber on the Gulf of Aqaba
• Tell el- Dab'a, Egypt, near the historic Avaris, the Southtown histor. City Pi -Ramesses
• Tel Dan, Arabic Tell al - Kadi or Tell el -Qadi, northern Israel near the Kibbutz Dan
• Tell Deir Alla, Jordan ( historical land of Gilead ), locality in an inscription on the biblical seer Balaam
• Adh Dhahab Tulul, Jordan, double hill in the Jabbok Valley
• Tell Dja'de al Mughara, northern Syria
• Tell Erfad, Syria, the historic city of Arpad
• Et -Tell, Palestine, the biblical Ai
• Tell el- Fara'in, Egypt, today Dep, part of Buto
• Tell el- Farama, Egypt, ancient Pelusium
• Tell- i- Ghazir, Iran
• Tell Habwe, Nile River Valley in Egypt, inscription of Pharaoh Nehesy
• Tel Hadar, Israel, on the Sea of ​​Galilee
• Tell Halaf, Syria, eponymous for the Halaf culture, as Guzana capital of the Aramaean kingdom of Bit Bahiani
• Tell Hariri, Syria, ancient Mari
• Tell harmal, Iraq
• Tel Hazor, Israel
• Tell el- Hiba, Iraq, ancient Lagash
• Tall Hujayrat al - Ghuzlan, Jordan at Aqaba
• Tell Jemmeh in Gaza
• Tell Jokha, Mesopotamia, ancient Umma
• Tell el- Loz Kamid, Lebanon
• Tell Karanovo, Bulgaria
• Tel Keisan, biblical Akhshaph, Akšapa, near the coast north of Haifa in Israel
• Tell Khanasri in Irbid in Northern Jordan
• Tell Kuyunjik, ancient Nineveh in northern Iraq
• Tell Kuran in northeastern Syria
• Tall al - Magass, Jordan, in Aqaba
• Tell Măgura Gorgana
• Tell Mardikh, the ancient Ebla
• Tell el- Maschukah, Egypt, cities Heroonpolis and Pi - Thum (Pa Thom )
• Tell Mashnaqa, Syria, on Khabur
• Tel Maso, in the Beersheba Valley in Israel
• Tall Mishrife, antique Qatna in Syria
• Tell Mohdâm, Tell Moqdan or Tell el- Moqdam, Tell el- Muqdam, Egypt, ancient city-state Leontopolis
• Tell Mozan, Syria, Akkadian city Urkeš
• Tell el- Mutesellim, antique Megiddo
• Tell- en- Nasbeh, in ancient Israel, probably antique Mizpah
• Tell Nebi Jenus, also part of Nineveh in Iraq
• Telloh, Mesopotamia, ancient Sumerian Girsu
• Tell Qannas, Habuba Qabira the Middle Euphrates in Syria
• Tell Qarqur ( Qarqar / Karkar ), Syria, ancient Aramaic Qarqar
• Tell it - Retaba, historical archaeological site in Egypt
• Tell Rifa'at, northern Syria, Aramaic Arpad
• Tell Roba, Tell al - Rub ˁ, Greek name Mendes, in the Nile Delta in Egypt
• Tel es- Safi, philistäisches Gat in the Shephelah ( Gaza Strip )
• Tell Sheikh Hamad, major Katlimmu
• Tell Siran in Amman, archaeological site on the campus of University of Jordan
• Tell Sukas, ancient city in Syria's Latakia Governorate
• Tell es -Sultan (or Sultan Tell ), Palestine, biblical Jericho
• Tell Tayinat ( Ta'yinat ), Turkey near Antakya, 2009 Assyrian cuneiform finds
• Tell Temai, Egypt at Mendes
• Tell Tuneinir, Syria, on Khabur
• Tell el- Obed, Mesopotamia, eponymous for the Obed- time
• Tall al - Uhaymir, antique Kish in Mesopotamia
• Tell el- Yahudiya, Egypt
• Tell Zeidan, Tell Zaidan at Raqqa, Syria, southeast of Aleppo, see Tuttul # History
• Tall Zira'a, Jordan, in the border region with Syria and Israel

Tepe

The following places and archaeological sites are denoted by Tepe: (alphabetical by main name )

• Ajina Tepe, Tajikistan
• Altıntepe, Anatolia, eastern Turkey
• Anzavurtepe, eastern Turkey
• Arslantepe, Turkey
• Cavustepe, Van province, eastern Turkey
• Dalma Tepe, West Azerbaijan (Iran)
• Fullol Tepe, Afghanistan
• Tepe Gaura, Iraq
• Gobekli Tepe, Anatolia, southern Turkey
• Godin Tepe, Iran
• Hajji Firuz Tepe, Iran
• Hora -Tepe, Dacian settlement, town in Romania
• Jorgan Tepe, northern Iraq, near Kirkuk, Nuzi, Ga -Sur
• Karatepe, Cilicia
• Kutlug -Tepe, Afghanistan
• Tilla Tepe, Afghanistan
• Yarim Tepe, Mesopotamia
• Yemschi Tepe, Afghanistan
• Namasga Tepe in Südturkmenistan
• Zernaki Tepe, an former. Urartu, eastern of Lake Van, Turkey
• Ziyaret Tepe, on the Tigris, the Assyrian Tushan dates back

Others

Tell the purposes of mountain also commonly referred surveys.