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Surroundings:

Kasr il Benat, Church of ConventAncient mosque

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mustajīd Naqīb
  • geo:35.958176,39.047729
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2500~ / unknown

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=34316

Annotations

Tuttul was a religious centre which was strategically located so it could control the junction of the River Balikh in Syria with the Euphrate.The first urban settlement existed in the second half of the third millennium BC. Tuttul with its enclosure was provided with a fortified walls and a gate with a tower - bastion.

See:

  1. Bi'a, (Tell), w: Piotr Bienkowski, Alan Millard (eds.), Dictionary of the Ancient Near East, British Museum Press, London 2000, p. 52.
  2. Akkermans, Peter M. M. G.; Schwartz, Glenn M. (2003), The archaeology of Syria. From complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies (ca. 16,000–300 BC), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 255–256,
  3. Abraham Malamat,, Mari and the Bible, Leiden: Brill 1998, p. 92
  4. http://www.uni-kiel.de/kibidano/receive/kibidano_kibpic_00004998?lang=en
  5. Manfred Krebernik,  Tall Bi‘a/Tuttul-II. Die altorientalischen Schriftfunde, WVDOG 100, Saarbrücken 2001
  6. www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsMiddEast/SyriaTuttul.htm
  7. Strommenger, Eva, Kay Kohlmeyer, Muhammad Miftah, and Franciszek M. Stȩpniowski. Tall Bi'A/Tuttul. Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, 1998.
  8. Marco Bonechi, On the Old Babylonian Tuttul Tablets, N.A.B.U. 1998 n°3 (Septembre) , pp. 78-79 - https://www.academia.edu/5256419
  9. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsMiddEast/SyriaTuttul.htm

Nearby

Tuttul, Dagan Temple

Temple of Dagan at Tuttul. Tell Bias [Bi`a`s]

Kasr il Benat, Church of Convent (2 km)

Qasr il-Benat. Qasr al-Banat.

Callinicum (2 km)

Fifth century convent in the Roman-Byzantine city of Callinicum.


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