Tell Abu Dhahir
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Tell Abu Dhahir is located on the right bank of the Tigris River, 90 km northwest of Mosul. The British Archaeological Expedition in Iraq conducted excavations there between October 1985 and April 1986, in advance of the completion of the Eski Mosul Dam project. The pluristratified tell documents the remains of numerous cultures, including Hassuna, Ubaid, Uruk, Ninevite V, Akkadian, Khabur, Late Assyrian, and Hellenistic/Parthian phases.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874722
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- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 22922 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Tell Abu Dhahir (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Tell Abu Dhahir located northwest of Mosul/‘Mespila’? (unspecified date range)
- Tell Abu Dhahir located on Tigris/Diglitus (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 E4 Tell Abu Dhahir
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tell Abu Dhahir, IRQ
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tell Abu Dhahir: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874722> [accessed: 16 December 2025]
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