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33 34.- Tell 'As. - In this necropolis located in the same region as the previous ones ( 34 ), some ten tombs seeming to have been examined so far. According to Mr du Mesnil, the tombs I and III, fig. would be of the beginning or the first half of the 2ndnd millennium, the tomb II of the end of the 3rdrd millennium, dates which we shall be able to specify.
Judging from the general homogeneity of the types ceramiq pottery and bronzes, these tombs, including tomb IV, must be of the same period. The spouted vessels, the cooking pot, the vessel with long tubular neck, body painted and pierced, as well as some of the cups fig. are morphologically similar to similar types from burial chamber IV of Mishrifé. But one finds in the tombs of Tell 'As goblets with foot comparable to those of the hypogeum of Tell Ahmar and cooking pots decorated with comb on the shoulder, fig. , analogous to those of the dome of Loth of Mishrifé, fig. According to these comparisons, the pottery of Tell 'As should be attributed to the period between 2200 and 1900.
The bronzes indicate the same date. Tombs I and II have the yielded pins with swollen or button head and pierced neck analogous to those of the [illegible] deposit of Byblos ([?... of Ras Sha[?...
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain