The Mittani Temples and the Middle Bronze Age–Mittani Sequence of Muqable

Abstract

Further excavations at Muqable (Kurdistan Region, Iraq) have revealed the complete plan of an extra-urban sanctuary from the Mittani period. To date, this is the only known example of such a complex in a small site of the Mittani period. The temple is integrated into a long stratigraphic and pottery sequence that leads from the Late Mittani to the Early Mittani and finally to a newly defined Initial Mittani period, under which Middle Bronze Age layers were unearthed.