Historical place profile
Habuba Kabira (South)
The southernmost of two associated settlements located on the western bank of the Euphrates, and one of the only examples of large-scale residential architecture from the Late Uruk period. Rescue excavations were conducted at the site before it was inundated by the Tabqa Dam Reservoir in the early 1970s.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:494566507
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:494566507
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.149450, 38.061005
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The southernmost of two associated settlements located on the western bank of the Euphrates, and one of the only examples of large-scale residential architecture from the Late Uruk period. Rescue excavations were conducted at the site before it was inundated by the Tabqa Dam Reservoir in the early 1970s.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
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Research path
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