Historical place profile
Tell el-ʻAbd
Mound site along the eastern bank of the Euphrates in northern Syria. The site shows signs of habitation from the Early Bronze Age through the Byzantine period. Tell el-ʻAbd was flooded by the construction of the Taqba Dam in 1975, though a portion of it has reemerged due to declining water levels in Lake Assad.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:862544795
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:862544795
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.234565, 38.139683
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Mound site along the eastern bank of the Euphrates in northern Syria. The site shows signs of habitation from the Early Bronze Age through the Byzantine period. Tell el-ʻAbd was flooded by the construction of the Taqba Dam in 1975, though a portion of it has reemerged due to declining water levels in Lake Assad.
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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