Location | Raqqa Governorate, Syria |
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Coordinates | 36°14′6″N 38°5′54″E / 36.23500°N 38.09833°E |
Type | settlement |
History | |
Founded | 4th millennium BC |
Periods | Uruk V |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1972-1982 |
Archaeologists | G. Van Driel |
Condition | Ruined |
Ownership | Public |
Public access | Yes |
Jebel Aruda (also Djebel Aruda or Jebel 'Aruda or Sheikh 'Arud or Gebel Aruda or Gabal Aruda), is an ancient Near East archaeological site on the west bank of the Euphrates river in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. It was excavated as part of a program of rescue excavation project for sites to be submerged by the creation of Lake Assad by the Tabqa Dam. The site was occupied in the Late Chalcolithic, during the late 4th millennium BC, specifically in the Uruk V period. It is on the opposite side of the lake from the Halafian site of Shams ed-Din Tannira and is within sight of the Uruk V site Habuba Kabira (8 kilometers downstream) and thought to have been linked to it. The archaeological sites of Tell es-Sweyhat and Tell Hadidi are also nearby.