Tall Al-Hamidiya

Tall Al-Hamidiya
	Shown within Syria
Location	Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria
Coordinates	36°44′21″N 41°1′38″E / 36.73917°N 41.02722°E
Type	settlement
History
Founded	2nd millennium BC
Periods	Old Babylonian, Mitanni, Middle Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian
Site notes
Excavation dates	1926, 1930, 1984-2011
Archaeologists	Maurice Dunand, Antoine Poidebard, Agatha Christie, Max Mallowan, Markus Wäfler, Oskar Kaelin
Condition	Ruined
Ownership	Public
Public access	Yes

Tall Al-Hamidiya (also Tell Hamidiya, Tell Hamidiye, and Tell Hamidi) is an ancient Near Eastern archeological site the upper Hābūr region of modern-day Syria in the Al-Hasakah Governorate on a loop of the Jaghjagh River. It is located just to the north of the site of Tell Barri, just to the east of the ancient site of Tell Arbid, just to the west of Tell Farfara and 20 kilometers north of Tell Brak (thought to be ancient Nagar/Nawar). It has been suggested as the location of Ta'idu/Taite. If so, it was mentioned as Ta'idu in early 2nd millennium BC Ebla and Mari texts. Later it was a provincial capital of the Middle Bronze Age Mitanni Empire. This identification is based primarily on a few Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian sources, as Taite, and the proximity of Kahat, known to have been nearby.^[1] Other locations have been proposed for Ta'idu/Taite.^[2]^[3]

^ Roskop, Angela, "Itineraries: Their Forms and Contexts", The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 50-82, 2011
^ Buccellati, Federico, "Learning New Styles, Quickly: An Examination of the Mittani–Middle Assyrian Transition in Material Culture", Values and Revaluations: The Transformation and Genesis of “Values in Things” from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Hans Peter Hahn et al., Oxbow Books, pp. 29–46, 2022
^ Berthon, Rémi, "Small but Varied: The Role of Rural Settlements in the Diversification of Subsistence Practices as Evidenced in the Upper Tigris River Area (Southeastern Turkey) during the Second and First Millennia BCE", Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 317–29, 2014

[1] Roskop, Angela, "Itineraries: Their Forms and Contexts", The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 50-82, 2011

[2] Buccellati, Federico, "Learning New Styles, Quickly: An Examination of the Mittani–Middle Assyrian Transition in Material Culture", Values and Revaluations: The Transformation and Genesis of “Values in Things” from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Hans Peter Hahn et al., Oxbow Books, pp. 29–46, 2022

[3] Berthon, Rémi, "Small but Varied: The Role of Rural Settlements in the Diversification of Subsistence Practices as Evidenced in the Upper Tigris River Area (Southeastern Turkey) during the Second and First Millennia BCE", Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 317–29, 2014

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