Introduction

This bibliography encompasses the most extensively excavated sites in the Syro-Mesopotamian region of the Khabur river (Upper Khabur river basin also sometimes called the Khabur Triangle). These are therefore the sites closest geographically to Mozan/Urkesh including Tell Arbit, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, Tell Barri, Tell Beydar, Tell Leilan, Tell Muhammed Diyab and Hamoukar.

For the ceramic results of the excavations of the German team at Mozan/Urkesh see Bianchi 2012 and Schmidt 2012.

There are two aspects of this comparative bibliography underpinning: one has to do with methodology and the other comparative material.

For the methodological part we plan to have a special edition in CAR 2.

For the comparative material there will be a second edition of this website.

My main purpose with this first edition of the Ceramic book is to present in detail my organization of the material and the substantive aspects of the Urkesh corpus as excavated under my direction. By way of example of what will be done in the Ceramics book 2 I presented above an example of a publication that includes the ceramics from one excavation area in Tell Arbit with some comparative points between Mozan/Urkesh ceramics and Arbit examples.