Notes d'archéologie et d'architecture orientales: Architecture circulaire dans l'univers syro-mésopotamien au début du IIIe millénaire (NAAO,10)
This study deals with a reassessment of the architectural features of two circular buildings, tell Gubba and tell Razuk, excavated in the Hamrin valley, and dated from the beginning of the third millennium. For each one, an analysis of the data found in publications and drawings pointed out interest...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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IFAPO
1999
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Syria
Year: 1999, Volume: 76, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-55 |
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| Summary: | This study deals with a reassessment of the architectural features of two circular buildings, tell Gubba and tell Razuk, excavated in the Hamrin valley, and dated from the beginning of the third millennium. For each one, an analysis of the data found in publications and drawings pointed out interesting characteristics concerning superstructures, in order to get a clear idea of it. Finally, tell Gubba appears as a kind of castle with a donjon twelve or fifteen meters high, built on a circular and larger two levelled basement, surrounded by a circular defensive wall. Tell Razuk is a very different building, planed like a crown around a central circular space ; two levels and a roof above the central space give a good habitable area. Clearly, the first one was a sort of military structure to control the Diyala road (river) at the opening of the Hamrin valley near a mountain pass, while the second appears to be a well- protected storehouse in the middle of a cultivated area. These two buildings give useful information about the political and economic situation in the Eastern limits of the Mesopotamian plain, at the time of first urbanization. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Syria
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3406/syria.1999.7609 |