Abstract
Tell Abr 3 is a Neolithic site dated to the ninth millennium ВС (Mureybetian, PPNA horizon) situated on the left bank of the Euphrates in the Syrian-Jazirah. The chipped stone industry is similar to that of phase III at Mureybet, and to that at Jerfel Ahmar and Cheikh Hassan. The other archaeological materials in stone include vessels in limestone and basalt, small engraved plaques, shaft straigthners and long polished stones. However, the most remarkable character of Tell Abr 3 is the presence of a circular building (12 m in diameter), richly decorated. Such decoration and finds of deposits of aurochs bucrans inside a bench as at Jerf el Ahmar suggest the sacred character of communal building.
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