Excavations at Tabara el Akrad, 1948–49

Abstract

Tell Tabara el Akrad lies about a twenty minute walk east of Atchana: to the north near the main road is Tell Akrad, and to the south the high conical Tell Saluq, now surmounted by a frontier post. In the Atchana season of Autumn 1948 I visited the site and brought back samples of a hand-made burnished pottery, which was recognised by Sir Leonard Woolley as quite different from anything found either at Atchana or at the neighbouring Chalcolithic site of Tell Esh Sheikh. It therefore seemed desirable to make some investigation of the site in the hope of securing a representative collection of the pottery and establishing its position in the sequence of the plain. But it was already late in the season, and impossible to undertake anything as part of the regular work of the Expedition. For this reason I offered to make a small sounding at my own expense; to which plan Sir Leonard immediately acceded, and gave the fullest support and encouragement, providing equipment and every other facility for the work. Bay Ruhi Tekhan, Director of the Antioch Museum, kindly made all the necessary arrangements; and the sounding was carried out in five days early in December by Bay Baki Ögün and myself with ten men.

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