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Tell Brak

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson

Contributors: Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

Last modified May 13, 2017 11:35 AM — History

tags: dare:major=0, dare:ancient=0, dare:feature=fort

Tell Brak, located in the Upper Khabur of northeastern Syria, was occupied between the sixth and second millennia B.C. The tell stands ca. 40 m tall and cover ca. 130 hectares.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874735

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.6687803, 41.0703913

Locations:

OSM location of Tell Brak (9000 BC - 1000 BC)

Names:

Nagar (Sumerian, unspecified date range)
Tabite (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
Taidum (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 1600 BC)
Tall Birāk (Modern Standard Arabic, 9000 BC - 540 BC)
Tall Brak (unspecified date range)
Tall Brāk (6200 BC - 540 BC)

Tell Brak makes connections with:

None

Tell Brak receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, fort, tower

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 D4 Tell Brak

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tell Brak, SYR

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Suggested citation:
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Tell Brak: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874735> [accessed: 22 July 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874735 |title=Places: 874735 (Tell Brak) |author=Roaf, M., T. Sinclair, S. Kroll, St J. Simpson |accessdate=July 22, 2018 5:13 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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