Also, an Uruk site of Jebel Aruda is located just across the river.
■ History
Sweyhat dates from 3100–1900 BC, or the Early Bronze Age and the very beginning of the Middle Bronze Age. The site covers approximately 45 hectares and consists of a central, high mound standing 15 meters above the surrounding plain and an extensive low mound surrounded by the remains of an earthen rampart. The site is located within Mesopotamia in a very marginal environment for agriculture, yet in antiquity it was a prosperous city. The site was also occupied during the Hellenistic Period.
■ Archaeology
Sweyhat is best known for its intact fortifications of the mid-to-late 3rd millennium BC and its late-3rd-millennium temple located at the summit of the high mound. In 1993, the Penn excavators discovered a large cemetery of shaft-and-chamber tombs in the Low Mound dating to the mid 3rd millennium BC. Sweyhat is a classic example of a Kranzhugel (German, ”crown-mound”) — a form of ruin mound typical of the Bronze Age in northwestern Mesopotamia consists of a high mound surrounded by a lower ring mound. Sweyhat was excavated by Thomas Holland for the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University in 1973–75. These excavations were part of the Tabqa Dam Salvage Project, initiated to save sites threatened by the formation of the impound lake, Lake Assad, behind a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River near the town of Tabqa. These excavations were renewed by Holland from the Oriental Institute of Chicago and Richard L. Zettler from the University of Pennsylvania Museum in 1989. This joint project excavated the site in 1989 and 1991. The Oriental Institute excavated again in 1992 and then halted operations at the site. Zettler carried out field seasons for the UPM in 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, and 2007. The project, which ended in 2010, was directed by Michael D. Danti of Boston University’s Department of Archaeology. Among their finds were three Early Bronze Age tombs, one of which had not been robbed.Tell Hajji Ibrahim is another important Uruk site in the area.

NW 11.8Km	Jebel Khalid
SW 12.5Km	Mumbaqat
NW 13.7Km	Jerf el Ahmar
NE 17.1Km	Tall Bazi
NW 17.6Km	Tell Halula
SW 21.9Km	Habuba Kabira
SW 27.9Km	Mureybet
NE 31.1Km	Qal'at Najm
SW 31.4Km	Lake Assad
SW 34.3Km	Emar

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