Sabkhat al-Jabbūl or Mamlahat al-Jabbūl[2] or Lake Jabbūl (Arabic: سبخة الجبول) is a large, traditionally seasonal, saline lake and concurrent salt flats (sabkha) 30 km southeast of Aleppo, Syria, in the Bāb District of Aleppo Governorate.
The area includes the Sabkhat al-Jabbul Nature Reserve, a protected waterfowl site.
[3] Primary uses of the area include waterfowl hunting, livestock grazing on the surrounding steppe and salt extraction.
[3] Al-Jubbul is the major source of salt in Syria, other sources include Lake Jayrud, Rif Dimashq Governorate, to the northeast of Damascus and Lake Khatuniyah (Khatunia), Al-Hasakah Governorate, to the northeast of Al-Hasakah, near the village of Al Hawi and the Iraqi border.
The rooms were used as mortuaries to preserve dead bodies of inames in the absence of refrigerated morgues.