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Multi-periodSite Name: Tell Brak Alternative Name: Nagar, Nawar, Tall Birak, Tell BirakCountry: Syria
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Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Al Hasakah Nearest Village: Tell Brak
Latitude: 36.667222N Longitude: 41.058333E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The former city is most famous for its so-called Eye Temple which is richly decorated with clay cones, copper panels and gold work, similar to thase found in contemporary Sumerian temples in Mesopotamia. Later in the 3rd millennium BCE, Tell Brak became a provincial capital of the Akkadian Empire with the palace of Naramsin. The city was plundered after the fall of the Akkadian Empire but the palace was rebuilt in the UR III Period by Ur Nammu. A statue menhir is in the Louvre.
The Tell Brak Project website.
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