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	Urkesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Urkesh was a city situated at the base of the Taurus Mountains in what is now northern Syria near the modern city of Qamishli.
		It came under the control of the Akkadian Empire in what is believed to have been a dynastic alliance between the kings of Urkesh and Akkad, with the daughter of the Akkadian king, Naram-Sin, being married to the king of Urkesh.
		The king of Urkesh became a vassal (and apparently an appointed puppet) of Mari.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urkesh (394 words)

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		Urkesh was the capital of a kingdom and a sacred religious center to its people, who were known as the Hurrians.
		"(Urkesh) is/was a very sacred place, but it was mythical as far as we knew," said Giorgio Buccellati, a professor emeritus of near eastern languages and cultures at UCLA and the chief archeologist of the expedition.
		"Urkesh was a very holy city, like Mt. Olympus was for the Greeks, and what is unique about Urkesh is that it is the only ancient city found in Syria known to have a primordial god," he added.
	prophetess.lstc.edu /~rklein/Documents/Urkesh.htm (866 words)

	Semitic Museum - Nuzi - Urkesh (NF)
		Nevertheless, the relative rarity of Hurrian names in the texts from the northern Mesopotamian town of Gasur (later in antiquity to be called Nuzi, modern Yorghan Tepe) suggests that it lay to the south of the core Hurrian area in the third millennium.
		Urkesh's name was found on three fragmentary impressions of seals belonging to Tupkish, king of Urkesh.
		The large tablet, made of copper, bears an Akkadian inscription by Atal-Shen, king of Urkesh and Nawar, towns in the Upper Habur river basin near the modern Turkish-Syrian border.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/hsm/NFNuziMozan.htm (523 words)

	Urkesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Hurrians founded Urkesh in the northern Syrian foothills of the Taurus Mountains during the third millennium B.C, perhaps as early as 2500 B.C. Its site is the only one identified by an inscription as a Hurrian city.
		During the rule of the Addadian king Naram-Sin (2255 - 2218 B.C.) it was enveloped in a dynastic alliance with the Addadian Empire with a daughter of Naram-Sin married to the king of Urkesh.
		A letter from the royal archives at Mari from the king of Mari to the king of Urkesh saying "I did not know that the sons of your city hate you on my account.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/new_page_82.htm (331 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Kingdom of the Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Though finding Urkesh has been compared to finding the Mount Olympus of Greek mythology, it is in fact more revealing, because Urkesh was also the Hurrians' political and economic capital.
		Kumarbi, the principal deity who lived in Urkesh, had a son, Ullikummi, whose nickname translates as "basalt," who is described as exploding and spreading out over the land: Basalt in fact covers the landscape, likely produced by the now-extinct Kaukab Volcano, whose double-coned caldera lies some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Tell Mozan.
		With an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people populating Urkesh, a city set astride regional trade and mining routes, the Hurrians must have played an important economic role in the lives of the Sumerians and Eblaites.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199703/the.kingdom.of.the.lion.htm (3112 words)

	UCLA Today: 990422 prof
		Titled "The Discovery of Ancient Urkesh and the Question of Meaning in Archaeology," the public lecture set for April 27 at 3 p.m.
		First, he plans to describe the excavation itself and how his team was able to identify the site as Urkesh, a city about the size of the UCLA campus.
		In 1965, Buccellati was hired at UCLA as an assistant professor in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and History; his wife, also an accomplished archaeologist, became professor of art history at Cal State Los Angeles.
	www.today.ucla.edu /1999/990422prof.html (511 words)

	Newsletter 18.1 Spring 2003 (Conservation at the Getty)
		The walls of the Urkesh Royal Palace at Tell Mozan are largely of mud brick, except for the stone substructure, and subject to damage by atmospheric elements.
		In doing so, we not only safeguard a ruin in the state in which it was found but also obtain a richer understanding of the cultural whole of which the fragment gives evidence.
		Giorgio Buccellati, codirector of Urkesh excavations, is professor emeritus in the departments of History and of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and director of the Mesopotamian Lab at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
	www.getty.edu /conservation/publications/newsletters/18_1/news_in_cons1.html (2188 words)

	IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 5fax1130.txt
		The discovery was formally announced recently in Philadelphia at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
		Urkesh was a bustling religious, political and commercial center 4,300 years ago.
		The Hurrian civilization thrived for some 15 centuries, and Buccellati says the place he and co-discoverer Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati found Urkesh -- at Tel Mozan, 397 miles northeast of Damascus -- helps explain why: "The area where Urkesh is located is at the foot of the mountains that go into what is today Turkey.
	www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/1995/11/5fax1130.html (673 words)

	Hurrian Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the nine excavation seasons they have spent at Tell Mozan since 1983, the Buccellati team first demarcated an outer defense wall and a building, nine by 16 meters (29 x 51'), that they believe to be a temple.
		The Buccellatis hypothesize that this may indicate a cross-cultural royal marriage with political consequences: Was a Hurrian king married to an Akkadian-speaking princess from the south?
		Buccellati's examination of the themes of Hurrian mythology indicates that they seemed to identify psychologically with the mountains to the north.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /westcivi/hurrian_culture.htm (1804 words)

	Beyond clay and beyond paper
		It is in these terms that I have approached, consistently, the question of the publication of our data from ancient Urkesh, modern Tell Mozan, in northeastern Syria.
		And we were also able to present some of our results at an informal gathering in the Institute: the occasion was the publication of a volume on conservation at Urkesh, edited by Sophie Bonetti, the Director of our Conservation Program, who was in town for our study season.
		It will produce what I call the ³Urkesh Global Record,² based on a rigorous grammar that allows a maximization of the input and leads to a complex automated synthesis of the data.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /ioa/backdirt/fall02/clay.html (1050 words)

	INTRODUCTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Urkesh, today a small village known as Tell Mozan, was a major political and religious center of the Hurrians –; an elusive population of the ancient Near East.
		Our excavations have shown that they had developed a strong urban civilization, at the very dawn of history, some 5000 years ago.
		If you wish to be notified when the complete website opens, or for any any other question relating to our website, please write to maillist@urkesh.org.
	128.97.6.202 /urkeshpublic/intro.htm (139 words)

	Hurrians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Khabur River valley became the heart of the Hurrian lands for a millennium.
		The Hurrian urban culture was not represented by a large number of cities.
		In the second millennium BC we know a number of Hurrian cities, such as Arrapha, Harran, Kahat, Nuzi, Taidu and Washukanni – the capital of Mitanni.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurrians (3283 words)

	Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although there are abundant references to these people in the writings of their better-known contemporaries in the Syro-Mesopotamian world such as the Hittites and Akkadians, until recently little was known of the Hurrians in terms of material culture.
		Archaeologist Max Mallowan and his wife, mystery writer Agatha Christie, set out to find the legendary city of Urkesh in the early twentieth century, but the site eluded them.
		Current excavation at Tell Mozan began in 1984, but the identity of the 150-hectare hilltop site, which was occupied from ca.
	wmf.org /resources/sitepages/syria_urkesh.html (321 words)

	Southern California Chronicle: UCLA Honors Professor for Archeological Discoveries in Syria
		The identification of Tell Mozan as Urkesh, which he made with his archeologist wife, Dr. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, is regarded as a significant milestone in the field of archaeology.
		In discussing the more than a quarter-century he has excavated in Syria, Dr. Buccellati praised the hospitality of the Syrian government and people, who are proud of their long continuous history and are willing to share it with the rest of the world.
		Scholars of the ancient Near East concur with subsequent materials the Buccellatis have excavated that Tell Mozan indeed is Urkesh.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/0799/9907068.html (2082 words)

	Ancient Hurrian Capital Urkesh (Tell Mozan) in Syria
		Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria has been identified as the important late third millennium Hurrian Capital of Urkesh.
		"Urkesh" was found at Tell Mozan on three fragmentary impressions of seals belonging to Tupkish King.
		The monumental building excavated at the margin of Tell Mozan offered its legacy in miniature: hundreds of seal impressions and small and fragile nuggets of clay.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Urkesh_Mozan.html (150 words)

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		It was reputed to be the capital of a fabled kingdom and the most sacred religious center of the Hurrians, an obscure people who were contemporaries of the Sumerians in the south and the Semites of Ebla in the west.
		If the excavations have indeed revealed the site of the lost Urkesh - and no one yet is disputing the claim - the discovery is expected to enable scholars to separate the ancient city of fact with the one of mythology.
		Kumarbi, the principal god of the Hurrian pantheon, was already known as the "father of the city Urkesh" and described as residing in Urkesh, "where he resolves with justice the lawsuits of all the lands." In mythology, Urkesh is the only known Syrian city to be mentioned as the seat of a primordial god.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V03/v03.n065 (4978 words)

	Calendar Event Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA presents: AT THE DAWN OF A CIVILIZATION: URKESH, THE FIRST HURRIAN CITY by Professors Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, and Department of Art History, California State University Los Angeles Thursday, January 18 at 8 p.m.
		The archaeological couple have worked together for many years in the Near East and are co-directors of the international expedition that has been excavating Tell Mozan, uncovering the evidence that ancient Urkesh was, in fact, that mythical divine residence of the gods.
		Tantalizing new insights can also be gained into unexpected innovations that took place in this area, from the style of their artistic production to the way in which animal husbandry contributed to the economic growth of the region.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /calendar/0001/fulltext/fulltext3251509094.html (242 words)

	AbeBooks: Search Results - Buccellati
		Urkesh and the Hurrians, Studies in Honour of Lloyd Costen
		Urkesh as Tell Mozan: Profiles of the Ancient City - Buccellati 3.
		The Historical Background of Urkesh and the Hurrian Beginnings in Northern Mesopotamia -7.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Buccellati (1763 words)

	Urkesh now excavated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The ancient city of Urkesh was an important religious centre, and capital of the Hurrian kingdom.
		It was buried under the desert sand in Syria for 4,000 years, then finally re-discovered.
		Urkesh trivia: Agatha Christie searched for Urkesh in the 1930s.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/000020.html (51 words)

	ANCIENT NEAR EAST BOOKS FROM UNDENA PUBLICATIONS
		Gli Opifici di Urkesh: Conservazione e restauro a Tell Mozan, Atti della Tavola Rotondo tenuta presso L'Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Firenze, 23 Novembre 1999, a cura di Sophie Bonetti.
		Urkesh and the Hurrians: Studies in Honor of Lloyd Cotsen (BM 26): A Slide Atlas.
		Gli Opifici di Urkesh: Conservazione e restauro a Tel Mozan, UMS 4.
	www.sumerian.org /undcat.htm (2540 words)

	Biblio Urkesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"The Seals of the King of Urkesh: Evidence from the Western Wing of the Royal Storehouse AK,"
		"The Courtiers of the Queen of Urkesh: Glyptic Evidence from the Western Wing of the Royal Storehouse AK,"
		"A Figurine From Urkesh: A 'Darling' From Troy to Mesopotamia,"
	128.97.6.202 /urkeshpublic/biblio.htm (1037 words)

	Intute: Arts and Humanities - Full record details for Urkesh : the ancient city of the Hurrians
		Urkesh is a Hurrian site located in Syria and dates at least to the Akkadian period, when the royal palace containing an archive of cuneiform tablets was built.
		The digital library offers free access to abstracts and full-text ebooks in PDF format of several scholarly publications on Urkesh and ancient Mesopotamia in English, Italian and German.
		As of 2005, a new version of this website is in progress, which should contain more pages targeting the general public.
	www.intute.ac.uk /artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=humbul16239 (217 words)

	Tell Sakan Excavations in the Gaza Strip
		The horse models from Urkesh are described by Rick Hauser in URKESH AND THE HURRIANS p.
		Horse bones were also excavated at Urkesh, but not in precisely datable layers.
		Any discussion of horses and wheeled vehicles in connection with the spread of PIE speakers MUST take account of the nature of those wheels, the varied categories which the term "equid" embraces, and the varied uses of the animals in each of those equid categories.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1999/v1999.n367 (8066 words)

	music tablet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A seal of queen Uqnitum gives us a glimpse of a musical performance such as would have taken place in the royal palace of Urkesh.
		A singer and a lyre player face each other.
		The music you hear is from an audio tape that was published laongside the monograph shown here.
	128.97.6.202 /urkeshpublic/music.htm (413 words)

	AUBnet Web Bulletin Additional information on event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Royal City of Urkesh (III millennium BC)
		The Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum presents an illustrated lecture by Professors Giorgio and Marilyn Buccellati: "Urkesh, the Royal City, at the beginning of the Hurrian Civilization (III millennium BC)".
		Created by the CNS at the American University of Beirut.
	www.aub.edu.lb /bulletin/64220.html (129 words)

	Syria: Sites and Excavations - Ancient Near East .net
		Urkesh: An Overview (University of California Los Angeles)
		Article: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin - Buccellati, Giorgio, "The Royal Palace at Urkesh: Report on the 12th Season at Tell Mozan / Urkesh: Excavations in Area AA, June-October 1999"
		Article: Ongkar Khalsa, "Urkesh and the Metal Trade in the Mid to Late Third Millenium"
	www.ancientneareast.net /syria.html (817 words)

	UCLA Webcast: 86th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture -- Giorgio Buccellati — UCLA Office of Instructional Development
		Three aspects of the puzzle were well known: a large hill, by the modern name of Tell Mozan; a city of myth, called Urkesh in antiquity, where the ancestral god of the Hurrian pantheon resided; and the capital of the only known Hurrian kingdom of the third millennium, also called Urkesh.
		We were able, through our excavations, to prove that they all matched.
		The kings of history, the gods of myth, the buried remnants all came together: Urkesh, a city founded some 5,000 years ago, then buried some 3,500 years ago, could rise and speak today in her own name.
	www.oid.ucla.edu /Webcast/FRL/Buccellati (334 words)

	Federico Buccellati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I am currently a student in a Magister program in Tübingen, Germany.
		For information about the IIMAS project to Tell Mozan / Urkesh in Syria:
		If you would like to contact me by email:
	www.federicobuccellati.com (43 words)

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