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(File:Silver hoard Tell Taya Ashmolean.jpg|thumb|Silver hoard Tell Taya Ashmolean)The site covers about {{convert|20|km2}} and the central tell is around {{convert|9|m}} high. The town was surrounded by a fortification wall though not a large one. It was first recorded by Seton Lloyd (as Tall Teir) in 1938 during his survey of the region.JOURNAL, Some Ancient Sites in the Sinjar District, 4241629, Iraq, 1938, 5, 123â142, 10.2307/4241629, Seton, Lloyd, Tell Taya was excavated by a team from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq led by J. E. Reade in 1967â1969 and 1972â1973. There were nine levels of occupation on the main mound with "each ended in a destruction, desertion, or fundamental change of plan". Numerous stone structures were investigated, and pottery, along with a two cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, and a Sassanian era stamp seal were recovered in the 9 layers. Both simple administrative tablets, found in the Old Babylonian level, were sealed "Hasidim, son of Anzanum, servant of Samsi-Adad". Hasidim is known to have been an official of Amorite ruler Shamshi-Adad I (c. 1808â1776 BC). One of the cylinder seals, made of terracotta, was quite unusual, containing only cuneiform writing which has not yet been deciphered.JOURNAL, Tell Taya (1967): Summary Report, 4199854, Iraq, 1968, 30, 2, 234â264, 10.2307/4199854, J. E., Reade, JOURNAL, Tell Taya (1968-9): Summary Report, 4199917, Iraq, 1971, 33, 2, 87â100, 10.2307/4199917, J. E., Reade, JOURNAL, Tell Taya (1972-73): Summary Report, 4199963, Iraq, 1973, 35, 2, 155â187, 10.2307/4199963, J. E., Reade, As part of the excavation four samples were radiocarbon dated, one from the Old Babylonian period (Level III), one the Ur III period (Level IV) and two from the Akkadian period (Level VIII).weblinkBurleigh, Richard, Janet Ambers, and Keith Matthews "British Museum natural radiocarbon measurements XVII", Radiocarbon 26.1, pp. 59-74, 1984 Among the faunal finds were ten cucurbit seeds (probably melon) found in the Old Akkadian level. This is the earliest example in the region.Muthukumaran, Sureshkumar, "Familiar but Foreign: Eastern Cucurbits", in The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 148-172, 2023History
(File:Silver rings used as currency - Tell Taya Akkadian period.jpg|thumb|Silver rings used as currency - Tell Taya Akkadian period)While some Ubaid and Uruk sherds were found the site was properly occupied on and off during the second half of the 3rd millennium, with some re-use in the Old Babylonian period and the Neo-Assyrian period. There is some evidence of Early Dynastic occupation, but major building at Tell Taya began around the time that the Akkadian Empire emerges.See also
References
{{Reflist}}Further reading
- John Curtis, Fifty Years of Mesopotamian Discovery, the Work of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1932â1982, British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1982, {{ISBN|0-903472-05-8}}
- Reade, J. E., "Tell Taya", pp. 72â78 in Fifty Years of Mesopotamian Discovery. The work of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq 1932â1982, ed. J. Curtis.. London: Stephen Austin and Sons Ltd., 1982
- David Oates, The Excavations at Tell al Rimah: 1964, Iraq, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 62â68, 1965
- Waines, J. G., " Plant remains from Tell Taya.", Iraq 35, pp. 185-187, 1973
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