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Tell Halaf, West palace south wall, orthostats with animals and a griffinTell Halaf, The divine traid, a sitting lion with a human head, a lion and a bullTell Halaf, Sculpture of scorpion-bird-man, guarding the gateway to the palace terrace (scorpion-gate)Tell Halaf, West palace, south wall various reliefsTell Halaf, Statue of a god, detailTell Halaf, West palace south wall, orthostat with an animalTell Halaf, The divine traid, a sitting lion with a human head, two lions and a bullTell Halaf, Head of a sculpture of scorpion-bird-man, guarding the gateway to the palace terrace (scorpion-gate)Tell Halaf, West palace south wall, orthostate representing an archerTell Halaf, Statue of a goddessTell Halaf, West palace south wall, various orthostatsTell Halaf, Architectural fragment, representing a headTell Halaf, Various orthostates, found in tempel-palaceTell Halaf, West palace south wall, orthostate representing a cherubsTell Halaf, Statue of a goddess, detailTell Halaf, West palace south wall, orthostats with an archer, bull and a griffinTell Halaf, Orthostat with a man on a horseTell Halaf, Various orthostates, found in tempel-palaceTell Halaf, West palace south wall, orthostate representing a lionTell Halaf, Statue of a god and one of a goddessTell Halaf, West palace south wall, orthostats with a griffin, soldier and a cherubsTell Halaf, Orthostate representing an archer, found in palace IVTell Halaf, Various orthostates, found in tempel-palaceTell Halaf, West palace south wall reconstructionTell Halaf, The divine triad, one god standing on a lion, one god standing on a bull and a goddess standing on a lion, supporters of the portico of the temple-palaceTell Halaf, West palace south wall, orthostats with a bull, a lion and a human figureTell Halaf, Orthostate representing a cherubs, found in palace IVTell Halaf, West palace entrance, orthostat representing an archer and a bullTell Halaf, West palace south wall, various orthostatsTell Halaf, The divine triad, one god standing on a lion, one god standing on a bull and a goddess standing on a lion, supporters of the portico of the temple-palace

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Tall Ḩalaf
  • geo:36.826427,40.0397
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -5xxx / -2000

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=22962

Annotations

The site of Tell Halaf  - Guzana (biblical Gozan) northeastern Syria, a few kilometers from the Turkish border is an eponymous place of the Halaf Culture.

See:

  1. Charles Burney, Historical Dictionary of the Hittites, Scarecrow Press 2004, sv. Guzanu [Tell Halaf]
  2. Lutz Martin et Mirko Novák, Tell Hall - http://www.grabung-halaf.de/index.php?l=eng

Relevant museums

Deir ez-Zor Museum

Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum

Aleppo, National Museum

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

Pergamon Museum in Berlin

Houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Market Gate of Miletus.

Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis

Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Nearby

Necropolis

Necropolis

Tell Halaf - Guzana, Citadel

Citadel of Guzana.

West Palace (Hilani) (Tal Halaf)

West Palace (Hilani) (Tal Halaf)


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