Shared Kindredship Between Sumerians, Kurds, and Hebrews from 6th Millenium BC?
Abbreviations: 7M. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2M - 7th Millennium BC, etc.
4. Mesop., Eridu, 6M
5. Turkey, 6M
6. ria, Aleppo, 6M
7. Yarim-Lim, 1720-1650
AlaIakh-Mukish, Turkey
8. Idrimi, 16th century
AlaIakh-Mukish, Turkey
2M map of the Golden Square
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LEGEND
PRESENTED: Possible pre-western,
related prehistoric populations
including Sumerians, proto-Kurds, and
proto•Hebrews in Mesopotamia, Turkey,
Iran, and Syria during the Halaf, Ubaid,
Uruk, and Early Bronze Age periods.
KEY TERMS: al King Idrimi, pic. [81
1600 BC. Idrimi was one of the sons of the
royal house of Aleppo in Syria - home of
Canaanite nomads. Idrimi ruled an iron.
using, prosperous kingdom in Alalakh in
Mukish; i.e. the Amuq Valley vacillating in
ownership between Turkey and Syria since
prehistory. At some sites, pic„ 181 is shown
with a down-turned mouth, large, vacant eyes,
and a beardless, stern face; bl Halaf, Ubaid,
Uruk: uniform prehistoric, pottery-making
cultures spanning Syria, Iran, Mesopotamia,
and Turkey, 6000 - 3700 BC.
From the 7M, the golden
GEOGRAPHY:
"square" (the "golden square" is my
construction) contains some of the most
significant early civilizations with farming
settlements in the 7M: Catal Huyuk,
adjacent Mukish (Amuq Valley; Alalakh),
Tell Kurdu, Tell Judaideh, and, in north-
easterm Syria, the nearby Aleppo.
Statuettes with similarly
FIGURINE 4-6:
deformed heads are seen in a 6M
statuette from Eridu [41. a lovely 6M
figurine from Hacilar, Turkey [51, and
161 a figurine from in or near Aleppo,
Syria which resembles 6M figurine from
Mesopotamia. 7 and 8 appear Negrid-
African in resemblance - likely Negrito.
POINT of INjERES1: The paired cultures
of Mesopotamia (1:4), Turkey (2:5), and
Syria (3:6) reveal that in the golden
square both Tell Kurdu and Tell Judaideh,
with ties to modern Kurds and Hebrew,
border each other and the Mukish of
Idrimi along with the biblical Canannites •
and from the Canaanites, modern religion.
HOMOGENOUS MATERIAL CULTURE AND
POPUIAJION?:
After completing his
famous excavations at the Royal Cemetary
of Ur. Leonard Woolley excavated the golden square. Excavators continuing work in the golden square begun by Woolley have spoken
of the homogenous population in the pre-Western lands: al Mesopotamia and Turkey: "The presence of painted Mesopotamia-related
Ubaid-like wares at Tell Kurdu implies the presence of colonial enclaves just as in the subsequent Uruk Period." bl Mesopotamia
and Aleppo in Syria: Dr. Joan Oates states that there was probably a Sumerian colony on the Euphrates east of Aleppo, [whose
pottery, seals, and bricks used in building constructions) are indistinguishable from examples from Uruk in Sumer."ll I
Cuneiform tablets from Aleppo record Yarim-Lim as granting asylum to Mari's last king, Zimri-Lim, when the Assyrians came into
control of his, Zimri-Lim's, lands. Zimri-Lim married Shibtu, Yarim-Lim's daughter. Abraham passed through Aleppo, legend has it.
BIBLIO: 1 Joan Oates,Ba Ion hamesan Hudso London, 1979 ,
. 29; 2 1!!!R//www.tbebritishmuseum.ac.yycompasYixbin/goto?id=()BJ1710
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