Tell Fekheriye - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Tell Fekheriye - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Tell Fekheriye () (often spelled as Tell el-Fakhariya or Tell Fecheriye, among other variants) is an ancient site in the Khabur river basin in al-Hasakah Governorate of northern Syria.L. Braidwood, Stone artifacts in C McEwan, Soundings at Tell Fakhariyah(Chicargo University Press, 1958 page 53-55. It is securely identified as the site of Sikkan, attested since c. 2000 BC. While under an Assyrian governor c. 1000 BC it was called Sikani.Postgate, J. N. “The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur.” World Archaeology, vol. 23, no. 3, 1992Gropp, Douglas M., and Theodore J. Lewis. “Notes on Some Problems in the Aramaic Text of the Hadd-Yithʿi Bilingual.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 259, 1985, pp. 45–61 Sikkan was part of the Syro-Hittite state of Bit Bahiani in the early 1st millennium BC. In the area, several mounds, called tells, can be found in close proximity: Tell Fekheriye, Ras al-Ayn, and 2.5 kilometers east of Tell Halaf, site of the Aramean and Neo-Assyrian city of Guzana. During the excavation, the Tell Fekheriye bilingual inscription was discovered at the site, which provides the source of information about Hadad-yith'i.Dušek, Jan and Mynářová, Jana. "Tell Fekheriye Inscription: A Process of Authority on the Edge of the Assyrian Empire", The Process of Authority: The Dynamics in Transmission and Reception of Canonical Texts, edited by Jan Dušek and Jan Roskovec, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 9-40, 2016 Read more on Wikipedia
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