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SITE ID - NAME :	A2	Afar (Tell)
ANCIENT NAME :	Nimit Ishtar?
OTHER NAME :	-
LOCATION :	North Iraq, Mosul
CHRONOLOGY :	Early Historic; Late Historic
PERIOD CODE :	12 13 14 15 16 17 18
DESCRIPTION :	Market town, located between Mosul and the Jebel Sinjar. It had a bishop in the 12th century AD, and it may have had a castle, but there are virtually no medieval buildings anymore. Exceptions are fragments of two round bastions made of stone. One of these was decorated by means of large plastered chevrons, typical of Seljuk architecture (11-14th centuries AD).
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