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SITE ID - NAME :	A1	Abu Maria
ANCIENT NAME :	Apku, Apqu
OTHER NAME :	Abu Marya, Bumariyah
LOCATION :	North Iraq, Mosul
CHRONOLOGY :	Chalcolithic; Protoliterate; Early Historic; Late Historic
PERIOD CODE :	5 6 8 12 18
DESCRIPTION :	Two large mounds with a spring between them. Mound 1 is ca. 20 m high and it is covered by an extensive modern cemetery. Mound 2 is considerably larger, 25 m high, and marked by the ruins of a rectangular fortified noble's mansion, or khan. In 1938 in a very short (three weeks) season of excavations, led by Lloyd, foremost Neo-Assyrian ceramics, and an Assyrian inscription on a baked brick were found. Generally, the site is identified with ancient Apku, or Apqu. In the 13th century AD Abu Maria had a Christian population.
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