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Location

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Kasrat Muraybiţ
  • geo:36.0434,38.1287

Period or year

  • -10200~ / -6900~

Classification

  • rural
  • Visible

Mureybet

data access 22482

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.
    Netherlands, Amsterdam

Nearby sites

  • Mureybet Figurines
    Neolithic ceramic female figurines.
    Syrian Arab Republic, Kasrat Muraybiţ
  • Barbalissus
    OmnesViae import TPPlace2595
    Syrian Arab Republic, Kasrat Muraybiţ
  • Barbalissos
    Barbalissus.Qala'at Balis .
    Syrian Arab Republic, Mashrafah
  • Emar [Tell Meskene]
    Ancient Amorite city.Also: Barbalissus (Roman)
    Syrian Arab Republic, Mashrafah

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-09-30) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/22482
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Mureybet. https://vici.org/vici/22482, accessed 2026-11-08.