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Tell Beydar - Nabada
Tell Beydar - Nabada
The site of Tell Beydar is located in
Upper Mesopotamia and more precisely in the Upper Syrian Jezirah, a
region called “Khabur Triangle”, a sort of delta without sea, formed by
the tributaries of the Euphrates main affluents.
Upper Mesopotamia is not an alluvium
land and the environment is very different from Lower Mesopotamia, the
historical Land of Sumer. There artificial irrigation is a basic need
for agriculture, which is developed on very large, flat surfaces,
lacking of any geographical and topographical marks.
In Upper Mesopotamia the rate of the
annual rainfall is high enough to allow for a rain-fed agriculture,
which is practiced on a large scale in the plains extending from the
Euphrates to the Tigris.
We are in the period when the
Sumerian city-states flourish in the South, about one hundred years
before being conquered by king Sargon of Akkad and being finally
included in his empire (c. 2330 BC). From the chronological point of
view, we are therefore slightly later than the construction of the
pyramids of Gizeh, in Egypt. However, in spite of the well established
contacts between Egypt and the Levant, cultural and political links
between Egypt and Mesopotamia are still very few at that time.
This period also corresponds to the
first golden age of Ebla, a period documented by the archives of kings
Igrish-halab, Irkab-damu and Ishar-damu. It is also the time of king
Iblul-il of Mari and his direct successors.
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