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Tell Habuba Kabira

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Oct 05, 2017 09:46 PM — History

The northernmost of two associated settlements located on the western bank of the Euphrates, showing signs of habitation from the Late Uruk period through the Middle Bronze Age. Rescue excavations were conducted at the site before it was inundated by the Tabqa Dam Reservoir in the early 1970s.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/923122730

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.150278, 38.060833

Locations:

Imagery location of Tell Habuba Kabira (4000 BC - 2000 BC)

Names:

Tell Habuba Kabira (Modern Standard Arabic)

Tell Habuba Kabira makes connections with:

Tell Habuba Kabira on Euphrates (river) (4000 BC - 2000 BC)

Tell Habuba Kabira receives connections from:

Habuba Kabira (South) near Tell Habuba Kabira (4000 BC - 2950 BC)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tell Habuba Kabira: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/923122730> [accessed: 03 August 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/923122730 |title=Places: 923122730 (Tell Habuba Kabira) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=August 3, 2020 4:35 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Tell Habuba Kabira