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Statuette from Mureybet (Cauvin 1994)Selenkahiye, Reconstruction of a tomb with human remains and potterySelenkahiye, WeaponsSelenkahiye, Terracotta animal figurinesSelenkahiye, Terracotta crude human figurinesSelenkahiye, Terracotta facesSelenkahiye, Mortar

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Kasrat Muraybiţ
  • geo:36.0434,38.1287
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -10200~ / -6900~

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=22482

Annotations

The Neolithic settlement of Mureybet was a small village occupied by hunter-gatherers occupied between 10,200 and 8,000 BC. It was ab eponymous settlement of the Mureybetian culture. Actually drowned beneath the waters of Lake Assad.

See:

  1. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Mureybat.html
  2. A.M.T. Moore: The Neolithic of the Levant, Thesis (Ph. D.)-Oxford University, 1978
  3. Maurits N. van Loon, The Oriental Institute excavations at Mureybit, Syria: preliminary report on the 1965 campaign. Part I: architecture and general finds, in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 27/4, 1968, pp. 265–282
  4. Juan José "Ibáñez, Introduction", in Ibáñez, Juan José (ed.), Le site néolithique de Tell Mureybet (Syrie du Nord). En hommage à Jacques Cauvin, BAR International Series (in French), 1843, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008, pp. 7–13
  5. https://atil.pagesperso-orange.fr/atil/x6.htm

Relevant museums

Allard Pierson Museum

Het Allard Pierson Museum is het archeologisch museum van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.


Nearby

Mureybet Figurines

Neolithic ceramic female figurines.

Barbalissus (3 km)

OmnesViae import TPPlace2595

Barbalissos (6 km)

Barbalissus.Qala'at Balis .


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