Middle Bronze Khabur Ware from Tell Barri/Kahat

The spreading of Khabur Ware, in northern Mesopotamia during the first half of the II millennium B.C., represents the first high diffusion of a specific production after the collapse of the second urbanization, demonstrating the stability restored after the crisis. The stratigraphic continuous sequence pointed out in the G Area at Tell Barri enables us to focus on the previous reflections through the preliminary results of the analysis of the ceramic assemblage excavated in one of the most important sites of North Eastern Syria. Starting from these considerations we will provide, through the correlations and parallels with the pottery coming from the most important sites of Syrian and Iraqi Jezirah, a proposal of relative chronology for Middle Bronze Khabur Ware from Tell Barri, focusing on the beginning and the development of this ware, during the main phases of the Middle Bronze Age