Urum al-Jawz

Urum al-Jawz (Arabic: أورم الجوز‎, also called Ouram al-Jawz) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located south of Idlib. Nearby localities include Maataram to the north, Ariha to the northeast, Kafr Latah to the east, Sarja to the southeast, al-Rami to the south and Muhambal to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Urum al-Jawz had a population of 4,683 in the 2004 census.

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`Urum

`Urum is a village in eastern Yemen. It is located in the Hadhramaut Governorate.

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Coordinates: 14°57′N 48°09′E / 14.950°N 48.150°E / 14.950; 48.150

Tell Uqair

Tell Uqair (Tell Uquair, Tell Aqair) is a tell or settlement mound northeast of Babylon and about 50 miles (80 km) south of Baghdad in modern Babil Governorate, Iraq.

History of archaeological research

The site of Tell Uqair was excavated during World War II, in 1941 and 1942, by an Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities team led by Seton Lloyd, with Taha Baqir and Fuad Safar. The buildings and artifacts discovered were primarily from the Ubaid period, Uruk period, and the Jemdet Nasr period and included four proto-cuneiform tablets.

Tell Uqair and its environment

Tell Uqair is a small mound just north of Tell Ibrahim, the large mound marking the site of ancient Kutha. The topography consists of two sub-mounds separated by what is apparently the bed of an ancient canal. At maximum the hills are 6 metres (20 ft) above the terrain line.

Occupation history

The site of Tell Uqair first had significant occupation during the Ubaid period, and grew to its greatest extent during the Jemdet Nasr and Uruk periods. Some Early Dynastic graves and a scattering of Akkadian and Babylonian artifacts indicate the location continued in limited use up through time of Nebuchadnezzar. Because of clay tablets found at the site, it is believed to be the ancient town of Urum. The toponym for Urum is written in cuneiform as ÚR×Ú.KI, URUM₄ = ÚR×ḪA, besides ÚR×A.ḪA.KI, from earlier (pre-Ur III) ÚR.A.ḪA.