Tell Begum

{{Short description|Archaeological site in Iraq}}

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Tell Begum is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in Iraq. It is located near Said Sadiq in the Shahrizor Plain in Iraqi Kurdistan. The archaeological site consists of a steep conical mound {{convert|9|m}} high, and a lower mound. It covers an area of {{convert|5|ha}}. The site was first investigated in 1960 by a team of Iraqi archaeologists. In 2013, a new excavation was carried out by archaeologists from Leiden University. This project restudied the older excavations and also conducted limited new excavations.{{Cite web|url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/archaeology/shahrizor-survey-project|title=Shahrizor Survey Project|website=Leiden University|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-29}}

The oldest excavated layers date to Late Halaf period. After an apparent hiatus in occupation, the site was resettled in the Late Chalcolithic 1 (LC1) period and continued to be in use into the Late Chalcolithic 3 (LC3) period (4300-3600 BC). Medieval occupation has also been attested.{{Cite journal|last1=Nieuwenhuyse|first1=Olivier|last2=Odaka|first2=Takahiro|last3=Kaneda|first3=Akemi|last4=Mühl|first4=Simone|last5=Rasheed|first5=Kamal|last6=Altaweel|first6=Mark|title=Revisiting Tell Begum: A Prehistoric Site in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan |date=2016|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/revisiting-tell-begum-a-prehistoric-site-in-the-shahrizor-plain-iraqi-kurdistan/ED6D44558C358BBCA172A6B72CFAFB29|journal=IRAQ|volume=78|pages=103–135|doi=10.1017/irq.2016.7|s2cid=54802423 |issn=0021-0889|url-access=subscription}}