Historical place profile
Mound at Banāt al-Hassan (Adams 134)
Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, these small settlements represented by a series of scattered mounds a kilometer in length (collectively numbered 134 in Adams 1972) contain remains dated to the Parthian, Sassanian, and Islamic periods.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:912818
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:912818
- Place type
- settlement, tell
- Coordinates
- 31.548082, 45.545491
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, these small settlements represented by a series of scattered mounds a kilometer in length (collectively numbered 134 in Adams 1972) contain remains dated to the Parthian, Sassanian, and Islamic periods.
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: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 B2 Banaat al-Hassan
Source and reuse
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Research path
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