Tell el-'Oueili
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Oct 27, 2017 04:54 PM
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History
Tell el-'Oueili is an archaeological site located in the Dhi Qar Governorate of southern Iraq. Occupation at the site predates the occupation levels of Eridu, making Tell el-'Oueili one of the earliest known human settlements of southern Mesopotamia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/636257512
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The occupation of Tell el-'Oueili dates to the Ubaid period. The site is located approximately 2.5 km southeast of Larsa and measures ca. 200 m in diameter by 5 m in height. Excavations exposed occupation layers dating from Ubaid 0 (ca. 6500-5400 B.C.) to Ubaid 4.
The site was first identified by André Parrot and then excavated by Jean-Louis Huot (1976, 1978, 1981-1989).
Jeffrey Becker, 'Tell el-'Oueili: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/636257512> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/636257512 |title=Places: 636257512 (Tell el-'Oueili) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 26, 2025 7:43 am |publisher=Pleiades}}
