Al-Jarud

al-Jārūd was a small-town in the Wadi Hamar area, about 40 km east of the Balikh River in present-day Syria, inhabited during the 9th century.

[1][2][3][4] At its peak, during the mid-9th century, al-Jarud was a regional center situated along an east-west running traffic and trading route and was embedded in a well settled, agricultural landscape.

[1][2] The site and its surroundings have been explored and excavated as a joint mission of the Directorate-General of Antiquities & Museums (DGAM Syria) and the Goethe-University Frankfurt between 1997 and 2011 (Directors: Imad Mussa and Jan-Waalke Meyer).

[4] According to Stefan Heidemann, who studied the coin finds of Kharab Sayyar excavation, al-Jarud was only built "to any significant extent" in the middle of the 9th century.

[7] Two larger buildings, one situated in the southwest, the second on top of the third millennium tell, located in the south-eastern corner of the walled area, have been explored with smaller excavation.

Remains of carved stucco wall decorations found at Kharab Sayyar, identified with al-Jarud.
The ruin of the mosque of Kharab Sayyar (al-Jarud) with remains of the market and adjacent buildings in the foreground. Image by B. Ciftci during the 2007 excavation.