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Multi-periodSite Name: Taya Alternative Name: Samiatum
Country: Iraq
NOTE: This site is 13.175 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mosul  Nearest Village: Wadi Taya
Latitude: 36.256535N  Longitude: 42.449440E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq

Remains of settlement within a Tell (mound) in northern Iraq West of Mosul. The site spreads across either side of the Wadi Taya. There is evidence of early 4000-3000 BCE from the Ubaid period. About 2500-2000 BCE it developed into a more substantial Hurrian town and then declined and was abandoned.
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Re: Taya by GeorgeF on Thursday, 20 July 2017
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Tell Taya is an unusual site for Mesopotamia in that although most walls and roofs elements of the town buildings were the usual mud-brick in their upper parts, its foundations - originally up to about 0.5 metres above ground - were limestone, from an exposure running under the settlement. The upper buildings have of course entirely disintegrated after more than 4500 years, but the stone foundations substantially survive for walls of all sizes, allowing the vast area of town outside the small central tell to be planned in detail.

The most central parts (including the early circular walled citadel) continued to be sporadically occupied for a long period, while the much larger outer town area lay deserted and slowly decaying for millennia.

In the midst of cultivated land, the unploughed town remains are visible on satellite photos as a distinctive light-grey patch 7 kilometres east-south-east of the spring in the nearby city of Tal Afar (at the north head of the area of dark irrigated trees and other growth). The central tell of the Tell Taya town is located at longitude 42.49327, and latitude 36.33255.

The full extent of the ancient town occupies more than 2.2 square kilometres.

Large institutional buildings are present, and many hundreds of courtyard houses, shrines, streets, and open spaces are visible on the site.
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