Hasaka-Sana
On the left bank of Wadi Abbas, 125 km northeast of the city of Hasaka, the ancient Tel Diab is located as a rich witness to the successive civilizations on the Euphrates River and the Syrian island.
The archaeological excavations at the site revealed since 1987 the periods that passed on the site from Akkadian, Mitanni, Assyrian, Greek, Hellenistic, Parthian, Roman and Arab-Islamic civilization.
The archaeological researcher, Dr. Abd al-Masih Baghdou confirmed that a group of tanateurs for bread and large pottery jars were used for storage, in addition to several graves, one of which contained a set of pottery and bronze tools, as well as a level dating back to the end of the Akkadian period that contained two walls built of stone.
Baghdou explained that the archaeological discoveries showed parts of a palace dating back to the Akkadian period, consisting of three large rooms and a square covered with grilled mud built with basalt stones, and two buildings located on the northern side believed to have been used as stores and warehouses for the palace with a third building consisting of several rooms and a street separating the buildings belonging to the palace.
According to Baghdou, a cemetery dating back to the fourteenth century AD was also placed on top of the palace, in addition to parts of a building dating back to the Akkadian period nine meters long that contained a four-meter-long kitchen inside which was found two tandoori, and next to it was a celestial yard and a huge wall with stone foundations two meters wide for rooms built of basalt stone It dates back to the post-Akkadian period.
He pointed out that the most important discovery at the site is that it is two temples and residential buildings dating back to the Khabur period that contain a group of important finds, including a group of pottery vessels inscribed with Indian, animal and plant figures dating back to the Middle Bronze period, parts of cuneiform inscriptions, and a cylindrical seal of an ancient Assyrian style showing the ancient name that The Assyrians used it for the site, which is the land of Abum.
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