Jabal 'Aruda, a view from the top of the hill to the ruins of the settlement of the 4th millennium B.C., overlooking the Euphrates reservoir

Jabal ‘Aruda, a view from the top of the hill to the ruins of the settlement of the 4th millennium B.C., overlooking the Euphrates reservoir

‘Ârûda is a uruk-temporal (ca. 3500 – 3300) settlement, perhaps rather a temple district with houses, on the Euphrates, ca. 1500 km northwest of Uruk, possibly a kind of colony to secure economic interests. ‘Ârûda is connected with Habuba Kabira, about 8 km further southeast, which has disappeared today in the Euphrates lake.The pictures 1388 – 1395 were taken from Jabal ‘Ârûda, just behind/above the settlement. (On this picture the southern area with view to the south-east, see picture 1390)

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Jabal ‘Aruda, a view from the top of the hill to the ruins of the settlement of the 4th millennium B.C., overlooking the Euphrates reservoir

    Place
  • Jabal ʿAruda
    Time Period
  • 1990s, 1999
    Keywords
  • Ancient oriental (before Bronze)
    Place hierarchy
  • world, Welt,Asia, Damascus,Syria, Syria,Governorate Aleppo, Muhafazat Aleppo,District Manbij, Mintaqat Manbij,Nahiyat al-Khafsa, Nahiyat al-Khafsa,Jabal ʿAruda, Jabal ʿAruda
    Collection
  • Collection Heiske (Peter)
    Author
  • Peter Heiske
    Copyright
  • © Peter Heiske (CC-BY-NC-ND)