Tell Bi'a
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Tuttul (Akkadian: tu-ut-tu-ulki, Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎚𐎍 – ) was an ancient Near East city. Tuttul is identified with the archaeological site of Tell Bi'a (also Tall Bi'a) in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. Tell Bi'a is located near the modern city of Raqqa and at the confluence of the rivers Balikh and Euphrates.
Key facts
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Tuttul
- Ancient site.map_type
- Near East
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- ,
- Ancient site.type
- archaeological site
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1980-1995
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Eva Strommenger
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Raqqa Governorate
- Location
- Upper Mesopotamia
- Image
- Tuttul,tombs.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tell Bi'a
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Archaeology
- History
- Chalcolithic
- Early Bronze IV
- Akkadian Period
- Ur III period
- Middle Bronze
- Middle Bronze IIA
- Late Bronze
- Byzantine period
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Tuttul (Akkadian: tu-ut-tu-ulki, Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎚𐎍 – ) was an ancient Near East city. Tuttul is identified with the archaeological site of Tell Bi'a (also Tall Bi'a) in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. Tell Bi'a is located near the modern city of Raqqa and at the confluence of the rivers Balikh and Euphrates.
==Archaeology== thumb|Early Dynastic tombs at Tuttul The site has an area of about 40 hectares with the main mound and a few subsidiary mounds surrounded by small mounds which are the remains of a city wall. After studying texts at Mari, Georges Dossin traveled to a site he called "Tell Biya" and identified it as Tuttul, ending much speculation as to its location. Tuttul appeared often in the texts from Mari.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tell Bi'a” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.