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Article: Recherche en Haute Mesopotamie: Tell Mohammed Diyab, campagnes 1990 et 1991 sous la direction de Jean-Marie Durand.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- July 1, 1996
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This is the second volume of reports of the French Archaeological Mission to the Habur under the direction of J.-M. Durand. It contains reports on the work done at Mohammed Diyab in 1990 and 1991 (pp. 9-97), the preliminary survey done by the Mission in 1984 (pp. 103-32), and soundings done at Tell Amouda in 1986 (pp. 133-50). In addition, D. Charpin publishes and discusses a Mari letter concerning the Habur area in the Old Babylonian period (pp. 97-102).
The work at Mohammed Diyab included further excavations on the high mound in level 5, dated to the first half of the second millennium B.C. Here were remains of at least three closely spaced buildings, each of which ...