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Surroundings:

Tel Amhar Stele ITell Ahmar/Qubbah steleTell Ahmar - MasuwariTell Ahmar - MasuwariTell Ahmar - MasuwariTell Ahmar - MasuwariTell Ahmar - MasuwariTell Ahmar/Til BarsipTell Ahmar/Til BarsipTell Ahmar/Til Barsip

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Tall Aḩmar
  • geo:36.674,38.120998
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -5000~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21229

Annotations

The site was ocuppied from Neolithic period. In Iron Age it was a strategic city as an Euphrates crossing point.  It is located ca 25 km South of Karkamish  and  ca 100 km North of AIleppo. It is known from Luwian hieroglyphic inscription as Masuwari1.

See:

  1. K. Lawson Younger Jr., A Political History of the Arameans: From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities, SBL Press 2016, pp.135-143
  2. Stephanie Dalley,   Neo-Assyryrian tablets from Til Barsib,  1997 Abr-Nahrain 1996–1997, vol. 34, pp. 66-99.
  3. MEL Mallowan, "The Syrian City of Til-Barsib", 1937, Antiquity, vol. 11, pp. 328–39
  4. Pierre Bordreuil,  Francoise Briquel-Chatonnet, 1996-1997. « Aramaic Documents from Til Barsip », Abr-Nahrain 34, pp. 100-107.
  5. Piotr Bienkowski, sv.Til Barsip, in: Alan Millard (eds.), Dictionary of the Ancient Near East, British Museum Press, London 2000 p. 291.
  6. Tell Ahmar (Til Barsib). Neo-Assyrian Urban Center, Northern Syria - http://www.archaeophysics.co,m/tell_ahmar/

References

  1. K. Lawson Younger Jr., A Political History of the Arameans: From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities, SBL Press 2016, pp.135-143


Relevant museums

Aleppo, National Museum

Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Tel Amhar Stele I

Neo Hittite stele of Masuwari .

Hamiyata Stele, Masuwari - Tell Ahmar-Qubbah

Tell Ahmar VI, the Tell Ahmar/Qubbah Neo Hittite stele of Storm God - currently in Aleppo?

Hamiyata Stele, Masuwari - Til Barsip (1 km)

Tell Ahmar II, the Ahmar II Neo Hittite stele of Storm God - currently in Louvre.


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