Tell Kashkashok Explained

Tell Kashashok (أخبر كاشكاشوك) is an archaeological site in the Khabur River Valley,^[1] of Northern Syria.^[2] The site is dated by pottery finds to the latter neolithic era,^[3] and early Dynastic era.^[4] The site was excavated by the Directorate General of Antiquities of Syria in 1987 and 1988.^{[5] [6]} The Early Dynastic era includes a destruction layer, and an early adoption of cuneiform. It may have been known in antiquity as Kiš. A few clay numerical tablets from the EB III were found.^[7]

Further reading

• "Tell Abu Hğaira (Syrian dig)", Syria 72, 1995, p. 183-190 (= CAAS II); "The Temples of Tell Kashashok and Tell Abu Hujeira", Mr. Al-Maqdissi, M. Abdul Karim, A. Al-Azm & M. Al-Khoury (ed.), The Syrian Jezireh. Cultural Heritage and Interrelations. Proceedings of the International Held Conference at Deir ez-Zor (22-25 April 1996), Damascus, 2002, p. 45-55 (= DAS I), in Arabic.
• Tall Kash-Kashok, H. Weiss, Ed., The Origins of North Mesopotamian Civilization: Ninevite Chronology, Economy, Society (Yale Symposium, 1988), Yale, 1988; AT. Suleyman & A. Taraqji, "Tell Kashkashuk at the time of Halaf", S. Cluzan, E. Delpont & J. Mouliérac (dir.), Syria, memory and civilization, Paris, 1993, p. 48; "Tell Kashkashouk", Syria 72, 1995, p. 170-183 (= CAAS II); "The Temples at Tell Kashashok in the Third Millennium BC", op. cit. not. 3, p. 321–322; "The Temples of Tell Kashashok and Tell Abu Hujeira", ibid., pp. 45–55.

Notes and References

1. Matsutani, Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture (University of Tokyo 1987) vol 109.
2. Web site: Buccellati . Giorgio . The Floodwaters of Urkesh and the Structural Coherence of the Urkesh Temple Complex . 2020-09-11 . Urkesh. .
3. Nishiaki . Yoshihiro . Preliminary Results of the Prehistoric Survey in the Khabur Basin, Syria: 1990-91 Seasons. . Paléorient . 1992 . 18. 1 (1992) . 97–102 . 10.3406/paleo.1992.4566 . JSTOR.
4. Book: Glassner, Jean-Jacques . The Invention of Cuneiform : Writing in Sumer . Johns Hopkins University Press . 2003 . 9780801873898 . Baltimore . 35 . 51041422.
5. MATSUTANI, Toshio. "Excavation at Tell Kashkashok II, 1987." Tōyō bunka kenkyūsho kiyō 109 (1989): 1-33
6. Book: Frayne, Douglas . Pre-Sargonic Period - 2700-2350 BC. . University of Toronto Press . 2008 . 978-1-4426-9047-9 . Toronto . 1100706906.
7. Philippe Quenet. “The Diffusion of the Cuneiform Writing System in Northern Mesopotamia: The Earliest Archaeological Evidence.” Iraq, vol. 67, no. 2, 2005, pp. 31–40