Between 1923 and 1924, the OFME unearthed a fortress and its large buttressed rampart on a western extension of Tell Uhaimir that they referred to as Mound X. Today, Mound X is a little hard to get to as it touches the roundabout of Highway 1.
Numerous interior chambers remained in Mound X, all built around what seemed to be a central court or a single large chamber. The OFME kept few records about this excavation, and no plans of this building survive, but notes speak of a square-shaped building oriented to the cardinal points. This fortress was dated to the Neo-Babylonian period (612-530 BC), with a later construction phase in the Achaemenid or Seleucid periods (538-331 and 305-141 BC) (Gibson 1972: 75; Moorey 1978: 29).
11 Sep 2025
Nadia Aït Saïd-Ghanem
Nadia Aït Saïd-Ghanem, 'The Fortress (Mound X)', The Forgotten City of Kish • مدينة كيش المنسية, The Kish Project, 2025 [http://oracc.org/MoundsofKish/TellUhaimir/Fortress/]