Historical place profile
Tell Yassir
The largest of seven mounds near the modern village of Qariyah Khamsa. Based on the contents of several cuneiform tablets discovered at the site, it is tentatively identified as the location of the ancient city of Malgium, the capital of a kingdom in the Ur III period. It is one of several tell sites in the region, collectively known as Tulūl al-Fāj.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:656796826
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:656796826
- Place type
- archaeological-site, findspot, settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.561298, 45.098906
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The largest of seven mounds near the modern village of Qariyah Khamsa. Based on the contents of several cuneiform tablets discovered at the site, it is tentatively identified as the location of the ancient city of Malgium, the capital of a kingdom in the Ur III period. It is one of several tell sites in the region, collectively known as Tulūl al-Fāj.
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
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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