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Volume 95 No. 3
July 1991
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A Mid-Second Millennium Tomb at Dinkha Tepe
Karen S. Rubinson
A stone-built tomb excavated at Dinkha Tepe in Iranian Azerbaijan came from the last building level of the Bronze Age, Dinkha IV, phase D. This article examines the contents of the tomb, a multiple burial with relatively simple ceramics and a rich collection of jewelry and other personal ornaments. On the basis of 14C dates and typological parallels, the use of the tomb may be assigned to the 17th to 16th century B.C. The jewelry shows strong ties to forms found most commonly in the Levant, as well as objects from greater Mesopotamia. In light of the parallels for the jewelry, combined with Kramer's earlier analysis of the Bronze Age ceramics comprising a Haburware assemblage, Dinkha apparently participated in both the Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian trading networks. The end of the Haburware levels at Dinkha, and the terminus ante queen for the tomb, probably dates to the first half of the 16th century B.C., after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire and the concomitant disruption of long-established trading patterns.
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