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Type:
Mound
Altitude:
160 m
Diameter:
m- Direction:

Region:
Mediterranean
Province:
Hatay
District:
Reyhanli
Village:
Tayinat

Destruction :
Contemporary Settlements - Attention

TAYEx:
Visited - 16/7/2001

Registration State:
Registered For detailed registration information please refer to Turkish pages.
     


Location: It lies immediate north of the motorway connecting Antakya to Aleppo; Syria through Reyhanli over the Turkey-Syria border; 17; 5 km west of the Reyhanli District; east-northeast of the Antakya Province. It is easily accessible.
Geography and Environment: It is located on the northeastern side of the Asi River. It is an oval mound. It measures 15 m in height and 700x500 m in dimensions including the slopes [Braidwood-Braidwood 1962:fig.8]. During the excavation in 1935; it was obscured by the village of Tayinat. It is surrounded by a fertile land like the other settlements of the Amuq Plain. There is a fresh water spring nearby. It lays 1.4 km far east of the Asi River. Tell Tayinat consists of an upper and a lower mound and the lower mound is under a thick layer of debris which is commonly observed in the flood plains of Orontes at Amuk [Harrison et al. 2008:87].
Destruction Details: The mound has been damaged due to agricultural activities and the contemporary settlement. There is a factory building on the mound which was built in 1950s; addition to this the profiles at skirts and the cultivated western part is the other traces of destruction [TAYEx 16.7.2001].


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