Mound at Banāt al-Hassan (Adams 134)
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place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Rune Rattenborg
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 08, 2026 05:40 PM
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History
Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, these small settlements represented by a series of scattered mounds a kilometer in length (collectively numbered 134 in Adams 1972) contain remains dated to the Parthian, Sassanian, and Islamic periods.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912818
31.548082, 45.545491
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 31899 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- بنات الحسن (Banāt al-Hassan: Arabic, modern)
- Mound at Banāt al-Hassan (Adams 134) part of (physical/topographic) Banāt al-Hassan (unspecified date range)
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settlement, tell
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 B2 Banaat al-Hassan
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Banaat al-Hassan, IRQ
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, Sean Gillies, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Mound at Banāt al-Hassan (Adams 134): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912818> [accessed: 20 May 2026]
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