Photos

Life in the Field
Region and Maps
map of Syria, with an inset showing the Jabbul plain.
Urban Origins: the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2700-2000 BC, Umm el-Marra Periods VI-IV)
six shards of pottery
several walls of stone making a early bronze age kiln
the firing chamber of an early bronze age kiln
bones and pots and shards full of dirt
a dirt area with a semicircular wall of stones
Lapis lazuli wild goat-shaped amulet
Gold flanged bead
a triangular golden filagreed pendant
a dirt area showing two skeletons laid down that have been partially uncovered
five or six pieces of pottery
an overhead view of a large walled off stone area, in a square shape
a gold and black pin
two large rectangular stone areas or rooms with dirt floors
a dirt floor with small pots, or miniature basalt tables
three small items with two points on each side, some broken
seven dishes and pots made of silver, several chipped
four small cylinders of clay with markings on them
Installation with equid skeletons inside. Two equid skulls and a spouted jar were placed on the ledge on the far side
a dirt area surrounded by stones with four skeletons in the dirt, bones exposed
Collapse: Middle Bronze I (ca. 2000-1800 BC, Umm el-Marra Period IIId)
Urban Regeneration: Middle Bronze II (ca. 1800-1600 BC, Umm el-Marra Period IIIa-c)
Middle Bronze II cylinder seal and impression
a large wall of stones with other stone walls in the background
Glacis constructions, west edge of site
Gateway to Acropolis, Middle Bronze II period
Northwest Building, late Middle Bronze II period
Late Middle Bronze II architecture, Northwest Area
Domestic architecture, Middle Bronze II period
Imperial Absorption: Late Bronze (ca. 1600-1200 BC, Umm el-Marra Period II)
Late Bronze Age burned room
Late Bronze Architecture, Southwest Area
Alabaster jar, Late Bronze Age destruction level
Glazed jar, Late Bronze Age destruction level
Mitannian tablet, Late Bronze Age (obverse)
Mitannian tablet, Late Bronze Age (obverse)
Occupation after the Bronze Age
Silver coin of Alexander the Great, posthumous issue
Achaemenid/Hellenistic period tomb