Umm el-Marra

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Umm el-Marra

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==Archaeology==
==Archaeology==
The site covers around 25 hectares with a maximum height of about 10 meters. It was surrounded with a city wall, about 400 meters in diameter, with 3 gates and a defensive ditch. The acropolis, a quadrilateral with rounded corners like the city wall, at the
The site covers around 25 hectares with a maximum height of about 10 meters. It was surrounded with a city wall, about 400 meters in diameter, with 3 gates and a defensive ditch. The acropolis, a quadrilateral with rounded corners like the city wall, at the
top of the mound has a diameter of about 100 meters. Excavation of Umm el-Marra was conducted at the site between 1978 and 1985 by a Belgian team led by Roland Tefnin.Roland "Tefnin, Exploration archeologique au nord du lac de Djabboul (Syrie): Une campagne de sondages sur le site d'Oumm el-Marra, 1978", Annuaire de lInstitut de Philologie et dHistoire Orientales et Slaves, vol. 23, pp. 71-94, 1980Roland Tefnin, The Belgian archaeological mission in the East: Syria: Tell Abu Dann | Umm el Marra,
top of the mound has a diameter of about 100 meters. Excavation of Umm el-Marra was conducted at the site between 1978 and 1985 by a Belgian team led by Roland Tefnin. This team also worked at the nearby site of Tell Abou Dann.Roland "Tefnin, Exploration archeologique au nord du lac de Djabboul (Syrie): Une campagne de sondages sur le site d'Oumm el-Marra, 1978", Annuaire de lInstitut de Philologie et dHistoire Orientales et Slaves, vol. 23, pp. 71-94, 1980Roland Tefnin, The Belgian archaeological mission in the East: Syria: Tell Abu Dann | Umm el Marra, Newsletter Archéologie Orientale Valbonne, vol. 2, pp. 8-11, 1980Roland Tefnin, "Exploration archéologique du tell Oumm el-Marra (Syrie du Nord): Campagne 1982", Syria, T. 60, Fasc. 3/4, pp. 276-278, 1983Roland Tefnin, "Tall Umm al-Marra", Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 28, pp. 235-239, 1982Dimitrov, Кamen, Doyen, J.-M, "Les monnaies antiques du Tell Abou Danne et d'Oumm el-Marra. Campagnes 1976-1985", Études balkaniques 4, pp. 133-135, 1991

Newsletter Archéologie Orientale Valbonne, vol. 2, pp. 8-11, 1980Roland Tefnin, "Exploration archéologique du tell Oumm el-Marra (Syrie du Nord): Campagne 1982",
Syria, T. 60, Fasc. 3/4, pp. 276-278, 1983Roland Tefnin, "Tall Umm al-Marra", Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 28, pp. 235-239, 1982
From 1994 until 2010, a joint archaeological team from the [[Johns Hopkins University]] and
From 1994 until 2010, a joint archaeological team from the [[Johns Hopkins University]] and
the [[University of Amsterdam]] led by Glenn Schwartz and Hans Curvers worked at Umm el-Marra.Hans H. Curvers, Glenn M. Schwartz and Sally Dunham, Umm el-Marra, a Bronze Age Urban Center in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 201-239, 1997Glenn M. Schwartz et al., Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria: The Umm el-Marra Project 1996-1997, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 419-462, 2000Glenn M. Schwartz et al., A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Mortuary Complex at Umm el-Marra, Syria : 2002 and 2004 Excavations,
the [[University of Amsterdam]] led by Glenn Schwartz and Hans Curvers worked at Umm el-Marra.Hans H. Curvers, Glenn M. Schwartz and Sally Dunham, Umm el-Marra, a Bronze Age Urban Center in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 201-239, 1997Glenn M. Schwartz et al., Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria: The Umm el-Marra Project 1996-1997, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 419-462, 2000Glenn M. Schwartz et al., A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Mortuary Complex at Umm el-Marra, Syria : 2002 and 2004 Excavations,
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