Nagar - Nawar, Tell Brak

Tell Brak, Letter about Mitanni cylinder seal Seal
Date:
Category: Levant
Institution: Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum
Place of discovery: Nagar (Nawar)
Collection: Livius

Tell Brak, Statuette of a bull Animal, Sculpture
Date: BCE_2200c
Category: Levant
Institution: Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum
Place of discovery: Nagar (Nawar)
Collection: Livius

Tell Brak, Head of an overlifesized statue Sculpture
Date: BCE_1450c-BCE_1300
Category: Levant
Institution: Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum
Place of discovery: Nagar (Nawar)
Collection: Livius

Tell Brak, Letter with a seal Tablet
Date: BCE_1450c-BCE_1300
Category: Levant
Institution: Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum
Place of discovery: Nagar (Nawar)
Collection: Livius

Surroundings:

Location:

Syrian Arab Republic, Shīḩā
geo:36.667618,41.058643
Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

-6500~ / unknown

Class:

City
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=21230

Annotations

Tell Brak was one of the northern Mesopotamian royal centre during the fourth and third millennia BC. During the third millennium BC, the city was known as Nagar/Nawar.

See:

http://www.tellbrak.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/balecture.html
http://www.tellbrak.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/publications.html
Anna Hanzelková, Observations on a distinct type of Neolithicand Chalcolithic pottery in the KhaburValley (NortheasternSyria), Brno 2015

Relevant museums

Deir ez-Zor Museum

Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum

Nearby

Tell Brak, Mitannian palace

Tell Brak, Mitannian palace. Tell Birak.

Tell Brak, Naram-Sin Palace

Palace of Naram-Sin - storehouse.

Tell Brak Head

Sculpture, Eye Temple