Tepe Gawra

Tepe Gawra

Tepe Gawra is an ancient Mesopotamian settlement in northwest Iraq, near the ancient site of Nineveh and 15 miles northeast of the modern city of Mosul. It was excavated in 1927, 1931 and 1932 by archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania, led by Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, who first discovered the site in 1927. [E. A. Speiser, Excavations at Tepe Gawra. Volume I: Levels I-VIII, The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 379-381, Apr. 1936]

The excavations showed that the Tepe Gawra site was occupied from approximately 5000 B.C. to 1500 B.C. They include the earliest known temple to be decorated with pilasters and recesses. The Gawra Period (3500 B.C. - 2900 B.C.) is named for the site.

The name "Tepe Gawra" comes from the Kurdish words for "great mound."

Notes

ee also

Cities of the Ancient Near East

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/65/te/TepeGawr.html Columbia Encyclopedia entry]
* [http://www.asor.org/gawra.html Images of artifacts from the Tepe Gawra excavations]


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