Chagar Bazar

A tell site on a tributary of the River Khabur in northeast Syria with levels from the 5th millennium BC (Halaf period) to the mid-2nd millennium BC. It gradually grew in size and importance and during the reign of the Assyrian king, Shamsi Adad I (early 2nd millennium BC) and was an administrative center. Excavated by Sir Max Mallowan from 1935-37, it yielded an important sequence of prehistoric wares, particularly Halaf and Samarra. There was iron (from the 28th c BC) and copper, too.

A tell site in the upper Khabur valley in northeast Syria, occupied from the Halaf period (5th millennium be) to the mid-2nd millennium bc. It gradually grew in size and importance and during the reign of the Assyrian king, Shamsi Adad I (early 2nd millennium bc) it was an administrative centre and possibly one of the king’s ruling seats.