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ID: 6005867
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6005867
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tell Halaf (prehistoric site)  Tell Halaf (prehistoric site)

Note: Archaeological site of ancient Mesopotamia; became Aramaean town 1000 BC; destroyed by Adad-nirari III of Assyria 808 BC, when area became a province of the Assyrian Empire; mentioned in the Old Testament as a place to which Israelites were deported.

Names:
Tell Halaf (preferred,C,V)
Tall Halaf (C,V)
Halaf (C,V)
Bit-Bahiani (H,V)
Gozan (H,V)
Guzana (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Syria (nation)  ........  Syria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Al Ḩasakah (governorate)  ............  Al Ḩasakah (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Tell Halaf (prehistoric site)  ................  Tell Halaf (prehistoric site) (P)

Place Types:
prehistoric site (preferred, C)  ............  location of first find of a Neolithic culture characterized by shiny pottery painted with geometric & animal designs
archaeological site (C)  ............  excavated by German archaeologists between 1899 & 1927
city (H)  ............  flourished from ca. 5050 BC to ca. 4300 BC, sometimes referred to as the Halaf period

Sources and Contributors:
Bit-Bahiani..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 911
Gozan..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 911
Guzana..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Halaf..........  [VP]
..............  Parrot, Sumer (1961) table of site
Tall Halaf..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 911
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 627
Tell Halaf..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 911
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 627
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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