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Projects: 10/2003 Geomagnetic prospection |
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Project:
Geomagnetic prospection at Tell Sheikh Hamad (Syria) |
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Location:
Tell Sheikh Hamad is the modern name of the Assyrian province center Dur-Katlimmu which is
situated in North Mesopotamia at the lower course of the Habur, the biggest tributary of the
Euphrat, between the present-day cities of Hassake and Deir-az-Zor. |
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Client:
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kühne
Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology
Freie Universität Berlin
(www.fu-berlin.de/einrichtungen/fachbereiche/gesch-kultur/altwiss/vak.html)
4th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Berlin, 29. March - 3. April 2004
(www.ctw-congress.de/4icaane) |
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Targets:
Geomagnetic investigations in the area of the Lower towns of Dur-Katlimmus should yield
findings about the total expansion and structure of the Middle and New Assyrian
administration centre and result in a kind of city map. |
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Operations and results:
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During field work which was carried out in September and October from 1999 till 2003
an area bigger than 40 ha was mapped geomagnetically. The total area was investigated
with an array of five Fluxgate magnetometers (Förster) which were controlled by
data loggers manufactured by heslab
(http://www.heslab.net).
The measuring profiles have a distance of 40 cm with a stationary interval of 10 cm. In
addition, in October 2001 test lines with GPR were carried out on selected areas. |
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Contact person:
Dipl.-Geophys. Cornelius Meyer (meyer@eastern-atlas.com) |
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