Tell Raqa

These structures themselves are evidence of a commonality that extends across the north, because to the temples Matthews recognizes at Tell Brak, Tell Chuera, Tell Raqa i, Tell Kashkashouk, Tell Atij, Chagar Bazaar, and Mari, I would add three more. The first, although not the earliest, comes from Qara... 

Plan of Tell Raqa i showing the round building of level 4 adjacent to the plan of level 3. Redrawn with kind permission of the authors, from Schwartz and Curvers 1992 figs 8,10. 

There is another possibility to consider that Tell Raqa i fulfilled all of the above functions and more - that just as significant to the raison d etre of the site as the silos and storage facilities, and entirely intertwined with them, are the nonstorage spaces of the round building and the subsequent temple precinct to its north. 

Plan of Tell Raqa i showing the round building... 

Dunham, S. 1993. A Wall Painting from Tell al-Raqa i, North-East Syria. Levant 25 127-43. 

Perspectives on Rural Ideologies The Tell al-Raqa i Temple. In La Djezire et I Euphrate syriens de la protohistoire a la fin du second miUenaire ap.J.-C. Tendances dans I interpretation historique des donnees noupelles, edited by O. Rouault and M. Wiifler, 163-82. Subartu VII. Tumhout Brepols. 

Schwartz, G., andH. Curvers. 1992. Tell al-Raqa i 1989 and 1990 Furtherinvestigations at a Small Rural Site of Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia. American Journal of Archaeology 96 397-419. 

Schwartz, G., and E. Klucas. 1998. Spatial Analysis and Social Structure at Tell al-Raqa i. In Espace natural, espace habite en Syrie du Nord (10 -2 millenaires av. J.-C.),... 

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