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SITE ID - NAME :	T2	Thalathat (Telul eth-)
ANCIENT NAME :	-
OTHER NAME :	-
LOCATION :	North Iraq, Mosul
CHRONOLOGY :	Neolithic; Chalcolithic; Protoliterate; Early Historic
PERIOD CODE :	3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11
DESCRIPTION :	Located ca. 55 km to the west of the modern city of Mosul. Despite its name ('the three mounds'), Telul eth-Thalathat comprises four large tells (I-IV) and one small mound (V). Three of the tells, Thalathat I, II and V, were extensively excavated in the 1950's to the 1970's by the Tokyo University Iraq-Iran Archaeological Expedition. The main occupation of the mounds can be assigned to the 7th to the 2nd millennia BC. Thalathat II, the lowest mound, was mainly occupied from the Proto-Hassuna (or Sotto-Umm Dabaghiyah) to the Uruk (Gawra) periods, with a break in the Halaf period. Occupation at Thalathat V was more limited, as it was mainly occupied in the Early Dynastic (Ninivite 5) period. Thalathat I, the largest mound rising over 20 m from the surrounding surface, has revealed Akkadian and Old Assyrian remains, but earlier occupations certainly exist.
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