About this Item
Record Details
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 20399
- World Region
- Asia
- Region
- Mesopotamia
- Country
- Syria
- Archaeological Site Name
- Tell-Brak
- Description
- Tell Brak in northeastern Syria was occupied as early at the 6th millennium BC, and continued into the later 2nd millennium BC. It was particularly important during the Middle and Late Uruk periods (3600-3100 BC), when states expanding from Southern Mesopotamia took control of the site, and again during the Akkadian period (2350-2200 BC), when the ruler Naram-Sin installed a series of massive public buildings. There is no convenient source for this si
- Image Categories
- Architecture: Other public building/space
- Source Type Detail
- Photographer (Original): Emberling, Geoffrey
Technical Details
- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 4814 x 3189
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 16591
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-16591/16591
Rights and Permissions
Related Links
IIIF
- Manifest
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/anthro1ic:16591
Cite this Item
View the Help Guide for more information.
- Full citation
-
"Tell Brak in northeastern Syria was occupied as early at the 6th millennium BC, and continued into the later 2nd millennium BC. It was particularly important during the Middle and Late Uruk periods (3600-3100 BC), when states expanding from Southern Mesopotamia took control of the site, and again during the Akkadian period (2350-2200 BC), when the ruler Naram-Sin installed a series of massive public buildings. There is no convenient source for this si". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-16591/16591. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. May 19, 2025.