tel Arbid spans an area of 36 hectares and comprises both an acropolis and a lower city. It gained renown for its distinctive Ardik-style Bronze Age pottery, notable for its deep orange glaze. A Polish expedition uncovered a cuneiform tablet recording the distribution of grain to two thousand citizens. The pottery workshops reveal tunnel-shaped kilns and precisely engineered ventilation shafts. Local artisans incorporated African ivory into dagger hilts, attesting to the site\u2019s far-reaching trade networks. Today, the site is considered well-preserved, thanks to vigilant community-based protection. A local association now plans to establish a small visitor center that will explore the ceramic production cycle and revive the colors of Ardik ware using red Khabur clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
tel Arbid spans an area of 36 hectares and comprises both an acropolis and a lower city. It gained renown for its distinctive Ardik-style Bronze Age pottery, notable for its deep orange glaze. A Polish expedition uncovered a cuneiform tablet recording the distribution of grain to two thousand citizens. The pottery workshops reveal tunnel-shaped kilns and precisely engineered ventilation shafts. Local artisans incorporated African ivory into dagger hilts, attesting to the site\u2019s far-reaching trade networks. Today, the site is considered well-preserved, thanks to vigilant community-based protection. A local association now plans to establish a small visitor center that will explore the ceramic production cycle and revive the colors of Ardik ware using red Khabur clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,322],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-al-hasakah","category-historical-landmarks-al-hasakah","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}