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	Halaf, Tell - OnlineEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, near the Turkish border.
		The Halaf culture was succeeded in northern Mesopotamia by the Ubaid Culture.
		The pottery of Tell Halaf, called Halafian Ware, is glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs.
	www.neareasternarchaeology.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Halaf,_Tell (487 words)

	Al Hasakah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The population of the governorate was estimated in 2005 to be 1,204,427.
		Tell Brak: Situated halfway between al-Hasakah city and the frontier town of al-Qamishli.
		Tell Lilan: Excavations began in 1975 and have revealed many artefacts and buildings dating back to the 6th millennium BCE such as a bazaar, temple, palace, etc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Hasakah (209 words)

	Halaf period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A tell (mound) site in the Khabur Valley in northeast Syria close to the Turkish border which has given its name to a widespread culture of north Mesopotamia and Syria with radiocarbon dates in the range 5500 - 4500 BC.
		The Halaf population practised dry farming (based on natural rainfall without the help of irrigation) growing emmer wheat, two rowed barley and flax; they kept cattle, sheep and goats.
		As well as their fine painted pottery the Halaf communities made baked clay female figurines and stamp seals of stone; these latter artefacts are often thought to mark the development of concepts of personal property (because at a later date seals are used to produce marks of ownership).
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /h/ha/halaf_period.html (265 words)

	The Halaf Period (5800-4500 BC), by Sarah Pulliam and Keith Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Halaf culture existed during the Early Cacolithic period of the Near East and is best known for its ceramics, female figurines, and circular architecture known as (due to a misunderstanding of similarities to Mycenean graves) tholoi.
		The Halaf culture is generally believed to have succeeded the Samarra/Hassuna culture in northern Iraq and the grey burnished ware pottery culture (the Late Neolithic pottery culture) in Sabi Abyad and south eastern Turkey.
		The Halaf may be classified as a tradition that encompassed the group of people that engaged in it; however, it is not necessarily true that all of the people associated with the tradition were one homogenous group.
	cdli.ucla.edu /staff/englund/m104websubmissions/halaf/halaf.html (2112 words)

	MESOPOTAMIA. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		B.C.) were found in N Mesopotamia; Jarmo, the earliest of these, was superseded by a succession of cultures: Tell Hassuna, Samarra, and Tell Halaf.
		Tell Halaf, the most advanced of these early cultures, is famous for Halaf ware, the finest prehistoric pottery in Mesopotamia.
		The Sumerians (see Sumer), the inhabitants of these city-states of S Mesopotamia, were unified at Nippur, where they gathered together to worship Enlil, the wind god.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/me/Mesopota.html (550 words)

	Halaf period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tell Halaf Culture A tell (mound) site in the Khabur Valley in northeast Syria close to the Turkish border which has given itsname to a widespread culture of north Mesopotamia and Syria with radiocarbon dates in the range 5500 - 4500 BC.
		As well as their fine painted pottery the Halaf communities made bakedclay female figurines and stamp seals of stone; these latter artefacts are often thought to mark the development of concepts ofpersonal property (because at a later date seals are used to produce marks of ownership).
		The Halaf culture was succeeded innorthern Mesopotamia by the Ubaid Culture.
	www.therfcc.org /halaf-period-124000.html (261 words)

	Tell Halaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Tell Halaf is a local Arabic placename, tell meaning "hill" in Arabic; what its original inhabitants called their settlement is not known.
		The museum was wrecked in a massive aerial bombardment in World War II and many of the rare artifacts were damaged or destroyed, in what is considered one of the worst losses to have occurred in Near Eastern archaeology.
		In addition, the Halaf communities made baked clay female figurines and the Stamp seal of stone, (see also Impression seal).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tell_Halaf (649 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tell Halaf
		The tell (mound) of Ubaid near Ur in southern Iraq has given its name to the prehistoric culture which represents the earliest settlement on the alluvial plain of southern Mesopotamia.
		Although no Halaf settlement has heen extensively excavated some buildings have been excavated: the tholoi of Arpachiyah, circular domed structures approached through long rectangular anterooms [2] (http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Halaf_Culture.html).
		The Treasure of Atreus tholos in 2004 Beehive tombs, also known as Tholos tombs (plural tholoi), are a style of Mycenaean chamber tomb from the Bronze Age.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tell-Halaf (719 words)

	Tell Halaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tell Halaf is an archaeological site of ancient Mesopotamia, on the headwaters of the Khabur River near modern Ra's al-'Ayn, northeastern Syria.
		It is the location of the first find of a Neolithic culture characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs.
		It was a flourishing city from about 5050 to about 4300 BC, sometimes referred to as the Halaf Period.
	www.digonsite.com /drdig/neareast/4.html (141 words)

	Virgin Birth (Vol.5) - Pt.I, CH.3
		The pottery of Tell Halaf was made by hand, unbelievably thin, indeed not thicker than two playing cards, and shows an extraordinary grasp of shape and decorative effect in colour and design.
		The result of the intense heat was the fusion and vitrification of the silicates in the paint so that it became a genuine glaze that gives the surface a porcelain finish quite different from the gloss of burnished ware so common later.
		Technically and artistically the Tell Halaf pottery is the finest handmade pottery of antiquity and bears witness to the high culture of its makers.
	www.custance.org /Library/Volume5/Part_I/chapter3.html (3695 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Halaf Cultural Period The earliest evidence thus far of a unified and distinct culture shared by the people inhabiting the Kurdish mountains relates to the period of the ‘Halaf Culture’ that began around 8000 years ago.
		Named after the ancient mound of Tell Halaf west of the town of Qamishli in what is now the Syrian Kurdistan, this culture is best-known for its easily recognizable style of pottery which, fortunately, was produced in abundance.
		The fact that the Halaf Culture spread so rapidly over such a considerable distance across the rugged Kurdish mountains is thought to have been the result of the development of a new life-style and economic activity necessitating mobility, namely nomadic herding.
	www.hki.uni-koeln.de /studium/oldPS/ws0001/arslan/KurdishOrigin.html (2877 words)

	Agatha Christie and Archaeology
		This pottery is known as Halaf, after Tell Halaf in north Syria, where Baron von Oppenheim first described it.
		It lies on the west bank of the Wadi Dara, which feeds the Wadi Khanzir, a tributary to the Khabur River; it is on the modern road between Hasseke and Amuda and was surely on a number of ancient routes that crossed this region.
		Tell Brak is one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Near East.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701725/session3.html (3071 words)

	5 Mill Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I propose that the stylistic rendering in eastern part of the Halaf sphere is significantly different from that in the west.
		Tell Sabi Abyad represents a larger, long-lived village situated in the northern, fertile parts of the Syrian steppe.
		Tell Boueid, in contrast, is a small, short-lived settlement located at the frontier of the settled Late Neolithic world.
	www.art.man.ac.uk /ARTHIST/5mill-abs.htm (5594 words)

	The Neolithic of the Levant (Excerpt 142)
		Much of the painted pottery to be seen on the surface today is of Halaf or Ubaid type as was noted by Maxwell Hyslop and her collaborators.
		Tell Ha1af which lies on a tributary of the upper Khabur 3 kilometres southwest of Ras Ain was also probably occupied in Neolithic 3.
		These artifacts and their stratigraphic position would suggest that Tell Halaf was occupied in Neolithic 3 though we cannot be sure of the cultural relationships of these early levels without further exploration.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /142.html (1841 words)

	Halaf period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halaf_period (103 words)

	Bowl [Syria, Tell Halaf] (1983.407) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Approximately half of the rim is preserved with the exterior and inner side decorated with brown paint on a buff background typical of pottery belonging to the Halaf culture.
		A lozenge pattern with central dots decorates the exterior and lozenges and striations adorn the inner rim.
		Halaf pottery is remarkable for the quality of its production and, as a result, often survives at sites dating to this period.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/hd/half/hod_1983.407.htm (117 words)

	StatueSyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Assyrian records tell nothing more of Guzan until 808 B.C. when the army may have moved to crush a revolt there (the source for this is an entry in the Eponym Chronicle [see Luckenbill 1927: 433]).
		The statue contrasts sharply with the non-Assyrian concepts of the Tell Halaf images, although the workmanship of some of those pieces is of equally high order.
		In this case we have the evidence of the Assyrian text and script, suggesting a date after 900 B.C., the historical context that is required for the statue, and our argument for the identity of Hadad-yis'i's father with the eponym of 866 B.C. to weigh beside the vagaries of the Aramaic script.
	home.apu.edu /~geraldwilson/StatueSyria.html (3750 words)

	Tell Halaf; a new culture in oldest Mesopotamia (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tell Halaf; a new culture in oldest Mesopotamia (in MARION)
		Tell Halaf; a new culture in oldest Mesopotamia
		Tell Halaf; a new culture in oldest Mesopotamia, by Baron Max von Oppenheim; translated by Gerald Wheeler.
	js-catalog.cpl.org /MARION/BBN-2531 (125 words)

	Halaf Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the period 5500-4500 BC north Mesopotamia shared a common culture, called Halaf after the site where the evidence was first found.
		The Halaf culture is also characterized by a distinctive type of pottery, found from south-east Turkey across to Iran, but which may have its origins in the region of the River Khabur (modern Syria).
		Halaf pottery was extremely well made and beautifully decorated which probably explains why it spread so far.
	iraqipages.com /iraq_mesopotamia/halaf_culture.htm (152 words)

	[No title]
		In Early Halaf are found shallow bowls along with simple ones, decorated by simple geometric designs and lines enclosed in panels, as well as naturalistic animals.
		West of Yunus and Tell Turlu, it seems that the import of Halaf culture has stimulated and influenced local traditions, as seem to indicate evidences found in the Amuq plain and Ras Shamra.
		Finally, sites like Tell Ramad and Byblos show no architectural remains, coarse pottery and old Neolithic stone industry, with apparently a sharpe decline in prosperity which leads, by the end of the period (about 4500, contemporary with Late Halaf), to a return to nomadism and barbarism.
	asian-center.net /ancienthistory/ch1.1.html (3754 words)

	Term Papers 2000, Term papers, Vol.8, Pg.11, 050922
		Jarmo was the earliest of these settlements and was superseded by a series of cultures, Tell Hassuna, Samarra, and Tell Halaf.
		Tell Halaf was the most advanced of the early cultures (Mesopotamia pg).
		It is famous for Halaf ware, which is regarded as the finest prehistoric pottery in Mesopotamia (Mesopotamia pg).
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay/8_11.html?ADD=1889&SUM=64.95&IPDG=600c27c0fa7ca30ccaf2a47fe52a2984 (3908 words)

	Tell Halaf
		Tell Halaf was located near the village of R'as al 'Ayn in the fertile Khabur valley near the Turkish border in northeastern Syria.
		During World War II, the Tell Halaf museum was destroyed, along with many of the artifacts, when bombs were dropped on it.
		Tell Halaf Tholoi is the Sacred Site focal point of a group of Safeguard Omniangels, the Syria Tell Halaf Safeguard Omniangels, and a group of Virtue Omniangels, the Syria Tell Halaf Virtue Omniangels.
	www.spiritsongs.org /Earth_Mysteries_Henges_Megaliths_Mounds_Stone_Circles_Sacred_Sites_Tell_Halaf.htm (415 words)

	sumerios1_pictogramas_ubaid_halaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the mid-5th millennium BC the Ubaid Culture spread into northern Mesopotamia and replaced the Halaf Culture.
		French excavations at Tell Oueili (J.-L. Huot) near Larsa have revealed a predecessor Ubaid 0 occupation which appears to be derived from the Samarran Culture (B 4 5).....
		The Ubaid Period in Lower Mesopotamia was particularly critical because it immediately preceded urbanization (1).....
	www.uned.es /geo-1-historia-antigua-universal/SUMERIOS/sumerios1_CUADRO%20GENERAL.htm (748 words)

	Mineralogie - TU Berlin
		The Tell Halaf-project: Tell Halaf is the modern name of the Aramaic city of Guzana in NE Syria, near the border to Turkey.
		Parts of the monuments of the so-called Western Palace, famous for its entrance façade with columns shaped as monumental deities standing on their sacred animals were brought to Berlin in 1928, where they were presented in a provisional Tell Halaf Museum.
		It is planned to incorporate the restored entrance of the Western Palace of Tell Halaf in the Pergamon Museum as the new entry to the Museum of the Ancient Near East in 2019.
	www.mineralogie.tu-berlin.de /research (531 words)

	Tell Kurdu Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tell Kurdu is an Early Chalcolithic regional center in the Amuq Valley of southeastern Turkey (fig.2).
		Tell Kurdu is currently the focus of a long-term excavation and research project.
		This material may be used for non-profit purposes only by citing Tell Kurdu Project as the source.
	pubweb.northwestern.edu /~rdo832/KURDU (147 words)

	The Aramaic inscription from Tel Dan
		Mueller, "Zur altaramaeischen 'Altar'-Inschrift vom Tell Halaf", in "Archiv fuer Orientforschung", 35 (1988), pp.73-78.
		The last mentioned type of text is usually inscribed on statues (Tell Fekheriyeh, Zakur, the two from Zincirli, and that from Karatepe) or on orthostats (Bar-Rakib, KAI 216 and 217, Kilamuwa, Hassan-Beyli, Karatepe).
		The affinity between the Mesha Stone and the Tell Dan stele is not limited to common monumental typology.
	thirdwoe.com /tel_dan.htm (3382 words)

	British School of Archaeology in Iraq: Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The eastern sphinx, the second lion, one of the male gods, the monumental funerary statue of a seated woman, the scorpion-man that used to flank the citadel gate are in preparation for the next years.
		The Tell Halaf-Project is therefore deeply grateful to the Sal.
		The devastation of the Tell Halaf-Museum was regarded as one of the most tragic losses for Ancient Near Eastern archaeology.
	www.britac.ac.uk /institutes/iraq/newnews13.htm (5158 words)

	Architecture Phoenicians Influences
		Western Semitic dominance can be seen from the sites of Zinjirli, Tell Halaf and Karatepe, where archaeological finds show that through the 8th and 9th centuries much of northern Syria and southern Anatolia underwent strong Semitic influences.
		The centre of this was the Phoenician lands and from here new motifs were spread, though with such continuity that the art of the first millennium owed much to the second.
		Furthermore, figures on Syrian stele show similarities to the relief found at Kommos B. A Near Eastern connection can also be made between one of the Tell Halaf orthostats and the limestone pediment of the 7th century Temple A at Prinias.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/Architec/AncientArchitectural/PhoenicianArchitecture/ArchitecturePhoenicians/ArchitecturePhoenicians.htm (1979 words)

	Chaper 6: The People, from the Paleolithic to the Chalcolithic Periods
		At Tell Hassuna, south of Mosul, adobe dwellings built around open central courts with fine painted pottery replace earlier levels with crude pottery.
		Often the dead were interred in large storage jars, and at other times bodies were cremated and the remains placed in specially made pottery urns and interred in caves.
		In Mesopotamia, at Tell Halaf on the Khabour River, a tributary of the Euphrates, hard, thin pottery with a beautiful finish produced by high firing at controlled heats was found.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/gerald_larue/otll/chap6.html (3396 words)

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