Tell Yassir
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg
Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg
Contributors:
Gabriel Mckee, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 15, 2026 01:58 PM
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History
The largest of seven mounds near the modern village of Qariyah Khamsa. Based on the contents of several cuneiform tablets discovered at the site, it is tentatively identified as the location of the ancient city of Malgium, the capital of a kingdom in the Ur III period. It is one of several tell sites in the region, collectively known as Tulūl al-Fāj.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/656796826
32.5612983539, 45.0989055535
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tell Yassir (2335 BC - 1600 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tulūl Yassir (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- I تل قرية خمسة (Tell Qariyah Khamsa 1: Modern Standard Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- تل ياسر (Tell Yassir: Modern Standard Arabic, unspecified date range)
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findspot, place of finding, find place, settlement, archaeological site
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Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg, Gabriel Mckee, and Tom Elliott, 'Tell Yassir: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/656796826> [accessed: 22 July 2026]
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