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Strata sequence MCA
Synopsis of AA phase sequence and C2 strata sequence

June 2023

periodization				stratigraphy
Mesopotamia	Syria		Urkes	AA phases		C2 Strata	other areas
modern				7	no occupation
ancient				7	no occupation
Middle Babylonian	Mittani			6 scattered	isolated finds in A9 houses in A16, A17, A18, A19	stratum 3	BH houses B6 terrace
Old Babylonian Khabur 1900-1600	OJ III	Terru, Haziran		5 last settlements	5c maximal expansion and great collapse	stratum 4 pebble pavement, partial abandonment	BA phase 4 scattered
	OJ II				5b further expansion over scattered occupation	stratum 5 houses I-II, IV, VII-VIII, IX (Puššam re-use), building III	BA phase 4 scattered
	OJ II				5a reclamation over scattered occupation
Isin-Larsa 2000-1900	OJ I			4 first settlements	4b middle settlement north, scattered occupation south	stratum 6 houses I-II, IV-V, VII, IX (Puššam re-use)
Ur III 2112-2004	EJ V	Ann-atal, Atal-šen, Sadar-mat		4 first settlements	4a lower settlement north, scattered occupation south	stratum 7 houses IV-V, IX (Puššam) eastern platforms	BA phase 3 foundations
Post-imperial Akkadian 2192-2112				3 palace depen-dency	3b continued re-use of palace dependency
Naram-Sin / Šar-kali-šarri 2240-2193	EJ IV	Tar'am- Agade			3a destruction and first re-use under Tar'am-Agade	stratum 8 houses X-XI strata 9-11 houses XIII-XIV	F1 house BA phase 2 new temple (?)
Man-ištu-šu / Naram-Sin 2269-2240		Tupkiš		2 palace	construction and occupation of Tupkish palace	stratum 12 ash dumps
Sargon / Rimuš 2334-2270	EJ III b	Tiš-atal (?)		1	pre-palace
ED III	EJ III a					strata 13-14 ash dumps strata 15-16 stone walls	BA phase 1 main temple OH2 accumulat.
ED II							B6 terrace

AAsE O624 (June 24, 2004)
with typological correlations to area C2 and others